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Certiorari

A writ issuing out of chancery, or a superior court, to call up the records of a inferior court, or remove a cause there depending, in order that the party may have more sure and speedy justice, or that errors and irregularities may be corrected. It is obtained upon complaint of a party that he has not received justice, or can not have an impartial trial in the inferior court.

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Advocation noun · 78% connection

The process of removing a cause from an inferior court to the supreme court.

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Appeal verb · 78% connection

To make application for the removal of (a cause) from an inferior to a superior judge or court for a rehearing or review on account of…

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Appearance noun · 78% connection

The coming into court of either of the parties; the being present in court; the coming into court of a party summoned in an action, ei…

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Attach verb · 78% connection

To take by legal authority: (a) To arrest by writ, and bring before a court, as to answer for a debt, or a contempt; -- applied to a t…

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Brief noun · 78% connection

A writ issuing from the chancery, directed to any judge ordinary, commanding and authorizing that judge to call a jury to inquire into…

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Call verb · 78% connection

To utter in a loud or distinct voice; -- often with off; as, to call, or call off, the items of an account; to call the roll of a mili…

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Chancellor noun · 78% connection

A judicial court of chancery, which in England and in the United States is distinctively a court with equity jurisdiction.

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Chancery noun · 78% connection

an office of archives for public or ecclesiastic records; a court of public records

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Depend verb · 78% connection

To hang in suspense; to be pending; to be undetermined or undecided; as, a cause depending in court.

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Estreat verb · 78% connection

To extract or take out from the records of a court, and send up to the court of exchequer to be enforced; -- said of a forfeited recog…

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Feud noun · 78% connection

A stipendiary estate in land, held of superior, by service; the right which a vassal or tenant had to the lands or other immovable thi…

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File verb · 78% connection

To put upon the files or among the records of a court; to note on (a paper) the fact date of its reception in court.

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