writ of right

American  

noun

1. English Law. a writ directed to a person who presided over a feudal court, directing him to render justice between his vassals in a dispute as to ownership of land: usually led to a trial in a royal court if feudal ownership was involved.

2. Law. a common-law writ to restore land to its rightful owner or tenants.

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Example Sentences

Bracton says, that in such cases the usual assizes and actions do not lie, and the 'little writ of right close' must be used 'according to the custom of the manor.'

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The writ is a remedial mandatory writ of right existing by the common law, i.e. it is one of the extraordinary remedies—such as mandamus, certiorari and prohibitions, which the superior courts may grant.

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While giving a judgment on a writ of right, Lord Norbury observed that it was not sufficient for a demandant to say he "claimed by descent."

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Here he hath his fixed and invariable remedies by praecipes and writs of right.

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It is twenty-five years since my father brought his writ of right, and though baffled, he was not beaten.

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