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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

Vasto, a writ against tenants for term of life or years committing wastes, Fitz. N.B. 55.

Transgressione, a writ or action of trespass.

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Tam quam, writ of error from inferior Courts, when the error is supposed to be as well in giving the judgment

Spoliation, a writ or suit for the fruits of a church or the church itself, to be sued in the spiritual

A writ brought before a proper tribunal to inquire by what warrant a person or a corporation acts or exercises

Intentione, a writ that lay against him who entered into lands after the death of a tenant in dower or for

Exemplificatione, a writ granted for the exemplifica-tion or transcript of an original record, Reg. Brev. 290.

Conspiratione, the writ that lay against conspirators, Reg. Brev. 134; Fitz. N.B. 114.

Computo, a writ to compel a bailiff, receiver, or accountant, to yield up his accounts, founded on the Statute of Westminster

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