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Webster 1913 Edition
Certiorari
Cerˊti-o-ra′ri
,Noun.
[So named from the emphatic word
certiorari
in the Latin form of the writ, which read certiorar volumus
we wish to be certified.] (Law)
A writ issuing out of chancery, or a superior court, to call up the records of a inferior court, or remove a cause there depending, in order that the party may have more sure and speedy justice, or that errors and irregularities may be corrected. It is obtained upon complaint of a party that he has not received justice, or can not have an impartial trial in the inferior court.
☞ A certiorari is the correct process to remove the proceedings of a court in which cases are tried in a manner different from the course of the common law, as of county commissioners. It is also used as an auxiliary process in order to obtain a full return to some other process.
Bouvier.
Webster 1828 Edition
Certiorari
CERTIORARI
,Noun.
Definition 2024
certiorari
certiorari
English
Noun
certiorari (plural certioraris)
- (US, law) A grant of the right of an appeal to be heard by an appellate court where that court has discretion to choose which appeals it will hear.
- (Britain, law) A grant of review of a government action by a court with discretion to make such a review.