writ of error

American  

noun

Law.

1. a writ issued by an appellate court to the court of record where a case was tried, requiring that the record of the trial be sent to the appellate court for examination of alleged errors.

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Example Sentences

For a defendant who has served the entire sentence, a court can issue a writ of error coram nobis, which removes a conviction as a result of a change in the facts or the law.

From New York Times • Dec. 15, 2014

The fine was repaid by the parliament in July 1644, and the judgment was revised on a writ of error in 1668.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" by Various

Some of these cases went up to the Supreme Court, on writ of error, and I shall quote from a case, known as the “Prize Case,” reported in 2d Black, 635.

From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Semmes, Raphael

Very important questions of law will be presented, and your honor is aware that in a criminal case in this Court there is no writ of error.

From Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Privateer Savannah, on the Charge of Piracy, in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York by Warburton, A. F.

In the first place, the plea to the jurisdiction is not before us, on this writ of error.

From Report of the Decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, and the Opinions of the Judges Thereof, in the Case of Dred Scott versus John F.A. Sandford December Term, 1856. by Howard, Benjamin C.