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How to use writ in a sentence

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In the circumstances, the respondent's membership and occupation rights should be declared terminated and a writ of possession ought to issue.
They want the Supreme Court to overturn the decision and have submitted a petition for a writ of certiorari.
This High Court order was challenged in a writ petition filed in the apex court.
The major global geophysical catastrophes that await us down the line are in fact just run-of-the-mill natural phenomena writ large.
If a lower court commits a factual or legal error, the Supreme Court will not grant a writ of certiorari simply to review that error.
When the plaintiff initiates the action, the defendant named in the writ shall be summoned to answer at the next court of portmensmoot.
Where a court or a public officer wrongly refuses jurisdiction the exercise of the jurisdiction can be commanded by a writ of mandamus.
You or your representative has the right to go to a court and seek a writ of habeas corpus.
Civilians enjoyed the rights to counsel and trial by jury and the privilege of a habeas corpus writ to test the legality of government detention.
Candidates can readily enough be nominated after the election writ is dropped.
This was the day that the writ for the election of members of this Parliament was returned.
And no doubt it is part of our middle western definition of community, writ in the dictionary of our hearts, not scrawled on some public wall.
For words of love are writ on the brows of men, on their lips are promises of tomorrow.
Was it writ all over my face that I was a first time visitor to their city, with my nerves in top gear?
Shock and disbelief were writ large on the faces as irate depositors thronged the bank's Sector 8 branch to know the status of their deposits.
In this village, distress and despair are writ large on the faces of nearly 100 widows and their 350 orphan children.
But I think that the superhero-as-metaphor involves a superhero being some sort of intellectual, emotional, or other such concept writ large.
Would that mean a writ of execution against an athlete's goods, or garnisheeing of an athlete's wages, is that a possibility?
Turning to the first issue of pleadings, we of course began with a writ of summons and statement of claim.
Did the plaintiffs or either of them have standing to seek the relief sought in the statement of claim and the further amended writ of summons?
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A writ of habeas corpus was forthwith sued out, returnable before Judge Grier.
Having obtained a writ of assistance, he proceeded to the house with Lieut. Lee, several of the coastguard, and a peace officer.
One day the patroller chief was rambling thoo' the place and found some letters writ to Mitchell and Andrew.
The form of the writ of fieri facias requires the sheriff to make a return to the writ.
He repaid hopper with a specimen of his tongue, and flung the writ back at him.
This is the writ of summons calling him to the Lords as viscount Lackington.
A writ by which a man may be taken out of jail when confined for the wrong crime.
I knowe the best of ye, by the lyes ye writ of me, got not the price of a good hat to cover your brainless heds.
It denies the writ of habeas corpus, ever known as the palladium of the citizen.
If he has a name, As soon as spoken, 'tis writ on my heart I am his bondman.
I had like to have writ a strange ugly word, that was just at the nib of my pen.
On this account they writ to Fucarandono, with all the warmness of an earnest invitation, and sent him word.
It was during this year that the charter of Massachusetts was dissolved by a writ of quo warranto.
She is in his custody, and he can enforce his right by a writ of habeas corpus.
His nerves were tense with the certainty that the answer was writ large for him to read.
Us writ to one another all dat year and got married at Christmastime, one year from de time us fust met.
It come upon me sudden and strong as a pile-driver, and my boy writ it down.
His handwriting does not run quite as far as the queen's writ in this country yet.
So the few lines that has gone from this shebang has been writ by yours truly.
The officer peered at him from under the brim of his hat, dubiousness writ plain on his young, good-looking face.
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