<span class="searchmatch">writs</span> <span class="searchmatch">of</span> <span class="searchmatch">right</span> plural <span class="searchmatch">of</span> <span class="searchmatch">writ</span> <span class="searchmatch">of</span> <span class="searchmatch">right</span>...
<span class="searchmatch">writ</span> <span class="searchmatch">of</span> <span class="searchmatch">right</span> (plural <span class="searchmatch">writs</span> <span class="searchmatch">of</span> <span class="searchmatch">right</span>) (law) A <span class="searchmatch">writ</span> which lay to recover lands in fee simple, unjustly withheld from the true owner. 1765–1769, William...
Scots <span class="searchmatch">writ</span> (“<span class="searchmatch">writ</span>, writing, handwriting”), Icelandic rit (“writing, <span class="searchmatch">writ</span>, literary work, publication”). <span class="searchmatch">writ</span> (countable and uncountable, plural <span class="searchmatch">writs</span>) (countable...
alt-<span class="searchmatch">right</span> centre-<span class="searchmatch">right</span> Christian <span class="searchmatch">right</span> far <span class="searchmatch">right</span> far-<span class="searchmatch">right</span> hard-<span class="searchmatch">right</span> Hindu <span class="searchmatch">right</span> Jewish <span class="searchmatch">right</span> Muslim <span class="searchmatch">right</span> New <span class="searchmatch">Right</span> Old <span class="searchmatch">Right</span> religious <span class="searchmatch">right</span> rightist...
military, criminal, and civil causes, and finally abolished in 1819. In <span class="searchmatch">writs</span> <span class="searchmatch">of</span> <span class="searchmatch">right</span>, where the trial was by champions, the tenant produced his champion...
the <span class="searchmatch">right</span> to possession <span class="searchmatch">of</span> property was endorsed by the king in the form <span class="searchmatch">of</span> a <span class="searchmatch">writ</span>. There were nine traditional <span class="searchmatch">writs</span> granted by the King, and each <span class="searchmatch">of</span> these...
Cowell, The Interpreter: Sometime a <span class="searchmatch">writ</span> <span class="searchmatch">of</span> <span class="searchmatch">Right</span> patent: as when it issueth out <span class="searchmatch">of</span> any Lords court, for any <span class="searchmatch">of</span> his tenents deforced, against the deforcer...
historical) A writ in English law commencing a common-law action for deciding a disputed <span class="searchmatch">right</span> <span class="searchmatch">of</span> presentation to a benefice, a <span class="searchmatch">right</span> known as an advowson....
Bookes: in a <span class="searchmatch">writ</span> <span class="searchmatch">of</span> Eſchete, in a <span class="searchmatch">writ</span> <span class="searchmatch">of</span> <span class="searchmatch">right</span> ſur diſclaimer, and ſuch like, which are founded vpon the ſeigniory, and not vpon any ſeiſin <span class="searchmatch">of</span> the land...
left to <span class="searchmatch">right</span>, usually having an odd page number. (law) A <span class="searchmatch">writ</span> <span class="searchmatch">of</span> <span class="searchmatch">right</span>. (front side <span class="searchmatch">of</span> a flat object): front (antonym(s) <span class="searchmatch">of</span> “front side <span class="searchmatch">of</span> a flat object”):...