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Writ of quo warranto

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EXECUTION, ELEGIT, FIERI FACIAS, POSSESSION, and VENDITIONI EXPONAS. For writs not in actions, see CERTIORARI, MANDAMUS, PROHIBITION, and QUO WARRANTO. A court's written order, in the name of a state or other competent legal authority, commanding addressee to … for the enforcement of fundamental rights and other purposes viz. (i) habeas corpus; (ii) mandamus; (iii) prohibition; (iv) quo warranto and (iv) certiorari. [Constitution of India, Arts. 32 and 226]

King's Bench

or, by writ of prohibition, prohibit their progress below. It superintended all civil operations in the kingdom. (See quo warranto.) By writ of mandamus it commanded magistrates to do what their duty required in every case where there … also indictments from all inferior Courts might be removed by writ of certiorari. See CERTIORARI; HABEAS CORPUS; MANDAMUS; QUO WARRANTO. On the plea side it exercised a general jurisdiction over all actions between subject and subject, with the

extraordinary remedy

obtaining judicial relief allowed when no other method is available, appropriate, or useful see also habeas corpus, mandamus, quo warranto

writ

jurisdiction over officials or inferior tribunals called also prerogative writ see also certiorari, habeas corpus, mandamus, procedendo, prohibition, quo warranto compare writ of right in this entry NOTE: Extraordinary writs were originally writs exercised by royal prerogative. judicial

Affidavit

proceedings, commenced by originating summons, are heard on affidavit evidence. So applications for attachments, certiorari, criminal information, mandamus, quo warranto, and other processes are usually made on affidavit (see, e.g., r. 53 of the (English) Crown Office Rules

Appropriate proceedings

or orders or writs', and the specific reference to 'writs in the nature of habeas corpus, mandamus, prohibition, quo warranto and certiorari' is by way of illustration only, Bandhua Mukti Morcha v. Union of India, AIR 1984 SC

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