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writ definition - legal

n

The written order of a court in the name of the state or other legal authority ordering the person addressed to either do something or restrain from doing something.

Webster's New World Law Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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