judicial writ meaning

Noun: judicial writ

1. (law) a legal document issued by a court or judicial officer
   - writ

Derived forms: judicial writs

Type of: instrument, legal document, legal instrument, official document

Examples

1. The justice would also receive fees from the parties in court, through the costs of judicial writs.
2. There were also thirteen Filazers, who shared counties between them according to historical divisions, and were tasked with filing judicial writs for their counties and transferring them to the Custos Brevium for filing.