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How to use writ in a sentence

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In some jurisdictions, the writ has to be served or the process has to be served before the action is brought.
To foreign dominions, which belong to a prince who succeeds to the throne of England, this Court has no power to send any writ of any kind.
The Dyer had sought to enforce a writ against a colleague who had covenanted not to practise the craft of dyeing in the same town.
The suit came to the Supreme Court on a writ of error from the District Court of Illinois brought by the plaintiff.
But since I think of the blogosphere as a dorm room bull session writ large, I still like the idea of discussing stuff like this.
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.
In this scenario, civil disobedience is nothing more than democracy writ large.
Were a writ now to be issued the High Court would be undermining the decision of the Court of Appeal.
On poster sites throughout Glasgow are black billboards writ large with addresses and postcodes.
Yes, but it would present less difficulties once it is acknowledged that the writ is almost as of right.
The writ clearly sets a terminus post quem for the addition, but can hardly provide a terminus ante quem for the text itself.
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.
If he returns bona vacentia on the goods, then the writ which may be registered on the title can then be enforced by sale by the sheriff.
During the war, there were six efforts by internees or prisoners to exercise the writ of habeas corpus in the federal district court in Honolulu.
Instead of focusing on the needs of the poor in the Third World they enforce the writ of western corporations.
The defendants put forward a plea of justification, based on the issue of the writ itself.
In the circumstances, the respondent's membership and occupation rights should be declared terminated and a writ of possession ought to issue.
You or your representative has the right to go to a court and seek a writ of habeas corpus.
Under U.S. law, a person held in custody by a state may challenge his conviction or sentence by seeking a writ of habeas corpus in federal court.
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Meanwhile, for technical reasons, the quo warranto had been abandoned, and a writ of scire facias had been issued out of chancery.
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.
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.
This is the writ of summons calling him to the Lords as viscount Lackington.
It denies the writ of habeas corpus, ever known as the palladium of the citizen.
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.
If he has a name, As soon as spoken, 'tis writ on my heart I am his bondman.
His nerves were tense with the certainty that the answer was writ large for him to read.
She is in his custody, and he can enforce his right by a writ of habeas corpus.
It come upon me sudden and strong as a pile-driver, and my boy writ it down.
Us writ to one another all dat year and got married at Christmastime, one year from de time us fust met.
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.
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