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  • WBIT OF ERROR
    A writ issued from a court of appellate jurisdiction, directed to the judge or judges of a court of record, requiring them to remit to the appellate court the record of an action before them, in which a final judgment has been entered, in order that examination may be made More...
  • WRIT OF EXECUTION
    A writ to put in force the judgment or decree of a court.
  • WRIT OF MAINPRIZE
    In English law. A writ directed to the sheriff, (either generally, when any man Is imprisoned for a bailable offense and ball has been refused, or specially, when the offense or cause of commitment Is not properly bailable below,) commanding him to take sureties for the prisoner's appearance, commonly called More...
  • WRIT OF FALSE JUDGMENT
    A writ which appears to be still in use to bring appeals to the English high court from inferior courts not of record proceeding according to the course of the common law. Archb Pr 1427.
  • WRIT OF MESNE
    In old English law. A writ which was so called by reason of the words used in the writ, namely, "Unde idem A. qui mediu8 est inter O. et prwfatum B.;" that is, A., who is mesne between C, the lord paramount, and B.f the tenant paravail. Co. lAtt lOOo.
  • WRIT OF POSSESSION
    This is tbe writ of execution employed to enforce a judgment to recover the possession of land. It commands the sheriff to enter the land and give possession of it to the person entitled under the judgment. Smith, Act 175.
  • WRIT OF PRAECIPE
    This writ is also called a "writ of covenant" and is sued out by the party to whom lands are to be conveyed by fine, the foundation of which is a supposed agreement or covenant that the one shall convey the land to the other. 2 Bl. Comm. 349.
  • WRIT OF PREVENTION
    This name is given to certain writs which may be issued in anticipation of suits which may arise. Co. Litt. 100.
  • WRIT OF PROCLAMATION
    In English law. By the statute 31 Eliz. c. 3, when an ewigent is sued out a writ of proclama¬tion shall issue at the same time, commanding the sheriff of the county where the defendant dwells to make three proclamations thereof, in places the most notorious, and most likely to More...
  • WRIT OF PROTECTION
    In England, the king may, by his writ of protection, privilege any person in his service from arrest in civil proceedings during a year and a day; but this prerogative is seldom, if ever, exercised. Archb. Pr. 687. See Co. Litt 130a.
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