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Writ of error

noun

A judicial writ from an appellate court ordering the court of record to produce the records of trial.

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... barrister, and within six months the judgment of outlawry, forfeiture, attainder, and corruption of blood, pronounced eighty-five years ago upon Samuel Wickham by the Court of the King's Bench, was, upon a writ of error, reversed by the Court of the King's Exchequer. I then proved that I was the only surviving heir of the wrongfully convicted man, and in a short time the estate became mine. After consideration I decided best not to keep the property, and just before my departure from England I sold it ...

— The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4 • Various

Words linked to "Writ of error" : jurisprudence, law, judicial writ, writ