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Central Criminal Court

misdemeanour supposed to have been committed out of the jurisdiction of the Central Criminal Court upon removal by certiorari into the King's Bench Division, to be tried at the Central Criminal Court, if it appears that it

writ

pleading and has lost many of its applications, the extraordinary writs esp. of habeas corpus, mandamus, prohibition, and certiorari indicate its historical importance as an instrument of judicial authority. alias writ : a writ issued upon the

final

: being a decision for which availability of appeal has been exhausted and concerning which a writ of certiorari has been denied or the time to petition for certiorari has expired b : being a decision of

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Crown Office Rules, 1906

whole practice and procedure of the Crown Side of the King's Bench Division of the High Court in Certiorari, Criminal Information, Habeas Corpus, Mandamus, Prohibition, Quo Warranto and other matters.

Tenor indictamenti mittendo

and the process there-upon, was called out of another Court into the King's Bench, Reg. Brev. 69. See CERTIORARI.

Sue

right by means of legal proceedings and was wide enough to include an application for a writ of certiorari, Province of Bombay v. Kusaldas S. Advani, AIR 1950 SC 222: (1950) SCR 621.

Recordari facias loquelam

Recordari facias loquelam [abbrev. re. fa. lo.], an original writ, in the nature of a certiorari, issuing out of Chancery, addressed to a sheriff to remove a cause depending in an inferior Court not

Quash

Fr.], to overthrow or annul-Bracton; as to quash an indictment, or order of justices, or a poor-rate. See CERTIORARI.

Procedendo

also lay where an action had been removed from an inferior to a superior Court by habeas corpus, certiorari, or any like writ, and it appeared to the superior Court that it was removed on insufficient grounds.

Prerogative Writs

occasions on proper cause shown. They are the writs of procedendo, mandamus, prohibition, quo warranto, habeas corpus, and certiorari. Prerogative writs are privileges of an extraordinary kind granted by the court in certain cases, but never as

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