(n.) A personal action which lies to recover possession of goods and chattle wrongfully taken or detained. Originally, it was a remedy peculiar to cases for wrongful distress, but it may generally now be brought in all cases of wrongful taking or detention.
(n.) The writ by which goods and chattels are replevied.
(v. t.) To replevy.
Example Sentences:
Writ
Definition:
(obs.) 3d pers. sing. pres. of Write, for writeth.
() imp. & p. p. of Write.
(n.) That which is written; writing; scripture; -- applied especially to the Scriptures, or the books of the Old and New testaments; as, sacred writ.
(n.) An instrument in writing, under seal, in an epistolary form, issued from the proper authority, commanding the performance or nonperformance of some act by the person to whom it is directed; as, a writ of entry, of error, of execution, of injunction, of mandamus, of return, of summons, and the like.
(Archaic imp. & p. p.) of Write
Example Sentences:
(1) To hear the former chief of staff of the Provisional IRA being depicted as a man whose job as Northern Ireland's deputy first minister is "to administer the Queen of England's writ in Ireland" is, to say the least, ironic.
(2) This we can see writ large in the prime minister’s skirmishes with Philip Hammond , the only member of government visibly considering the national interest.
(3) Abuses thet do exist should be handled through writs of habeas corpus and malpractice suits, remedies much more available now than in the past.
(4) Australia needs urgent legislation which strengthens the rules around government spending once the writs are issued.” As opposition leader in 2007, Kevin Rudd railed against the Howard government’s political advertising, which he called a “cancer on democracy”.
(5) In a letter to Infantino accompanying a draft writ that could be lodged in the Swiss courts, lawyers call on Fifa to “acknowledge that it has acted wrongfully by awarding the World Cup 2022 to Qatar without demanding the assurance that Qatar observes fundamental human and labour rights vis-à-vis migrant construction workers whose work is related to the 2022 World Cup”.
(6) The prime minister's tactics failed, raising questions about how far his writ runs in the party.
(7) In London, the courts ruled his detention unlawful and ordered a writ of habeas corpus to be issued so he could be freed, but this was ignored by the US military authorities.
(8) It is a sense of his own god-like importance, as opposed to Holy Writ, that persuades him that his convictions on the moment a new life begins – "it is just my view" – should prevail over women's choices.
(9) The challenge faced by the incoming Asda chief executive was writ large today as Waitrose posted sales figures that showed it growing at a far faster rate than its larger rivals.
(10) Historically, about 7% of activity occurs each day in the week after the governor-general issues the writs.
(11) His job is to administer the Queen of England's writ in Ireland ...
(12) Wrapping the existing building with a grungy cocktail of corrugated metal sheeting, raw plywood and chain-link fencing, through which angular glazed structures burst open, it was his maverick manifesto writ large.
(13) This was writ large at the outset, when Rose fired a flame thrower without batting an eyelid while Sheeran was handed a glitter canon and very nearly fell backwards with shock at the force of the “explosion”.
(14) Notices were pinned to windows of the building saying that a writ of possession was obtained from the high court on 24 November giving Camelot permission to remove the “unlawful occupants” on 1 December.
(15) Wednesday's decision by the UK supreme court in the case of Yunus Rahmatullah , a man detained by the British in Iraq, might seem to be about the hallowed writ of habeas corpus .
(16) We want it first because we lodged our writ long before the others."
(17) July 2012 Two high court judges dismiss Qatada's application for judicial review and a writ of habeas corpus.
(18) Does a vague law from 1789 – the so-called All Writs Act – give courts authority to make tech companies remake their products in times of duress?
(19) Keogh, whose campaign strategy has been to shelve his lengthy CV and focus on the fact that he, unlike Hastie, was born in Canning, but whose campaign events have been largely centred around the swing voting suburbs of Armadale and Kelmscott, was asked if he had made the trip down to Wagerup, 90km from Armadale, on the southern fringe of the electorate, since the writs were issued.
(20) It’s a place where American issues play out writ small, in ways that can affect governance on a grand scale.