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WRIT OF ERROR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A judicial writ from an appellate court ordering the court of record to produce the records of trial
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("writ of error" is a kind of...):
judicial writ; writ ((law) a legal document issued by a court or judicial officer)
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)