Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In law, a writ which formerly issued out of the English Court of Chancery in the exercise of its common-law jurisdiction, when judges of any subordinate court wrongfully delayed the parties, and would not give judgment either on the one side or on the other.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A writ by which a cause which has been removed on insufficient grounds from an inferior to a superior court by certiorari, or otherwise, is sent down again to the same court, to be proceeded in there.
  • noun In English practice, a writ issuing out of chancery in cases where the judges of subordinate courts delay giving judgment, commanding them to proceed to judgment.
  • noun A writ by which the commission of the justice of the peace is revived, after having been suspended.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun law A prerogative writ that sends a case from an appellate court to a lower court with an order to proceed to judgment.
  • noun law A writ by which the commission of the Justice of the Peace is revived, after having been suspended.

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