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writ of error
Matched in: Term writ of error
writ of error coram nobis
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Writ of certiorari
Matched in: Term Writ of certiorari
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Tam quam
Tam quam, writ of error from inferior Courts, when the error is supposed to be as well in giving the judgment as in
writ
Matched in: Term writ
Restitution, Writ of
Matched in: Term Restitution, Writ of
Certiorari
inferior judicial or quasi-judicial body. Grounds for invoking are excess of jurisdiction, violation of natural justice, fraud and error on the face of the record. Conditions for issuing this writ are'(1) a body of persons having legal … granted either at the instance of the prosecutor or the defendant. A prosecutor was formerly entitled to a writ of certiorari as a matter of right, but a defendant could only obtain it by express leave of the
Procedendo
judgment, but without specifying any particular judgment; for that, if erroneous, might be set aside by proceedings in error, or by writ of false judgment; and upon further neglect or refusal, the judges of the inferior Court … the one side or on the other, when they ought so to do. In such a case, a writ of procedendo ad judicium was awarded, commanding the inferior Court in the King's name to proceed to judgment, but
Amendment
the King's Bench Division can amend an order bad for want of form upon the return of a writ of certiorari. In these Courts no objection to any information, complaint or summons for any defect in substance or … Amendment, a correction of any errors in the writ or pleadings in actions, suits, or prosecutions. The power of allowing amendments has been much
Reversal of judgment
Reversal of judgment. A judgment might have been reversed without a writ of error, for matters foreign to or dehors the record, i.e., not apparent upon the face of it, so that … face of it, so that they could not be assigned for error in the superior courts, or by writ of error, which lay from all inferior jurisdictions to the King's Bench and thence to the Exchequer Chamber and the
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