writ
Judicial command document
A writ is a formal written order issued by a court or other authority commanding someone to do or refrain from doing something: The judge issued a writ of habeas corpus.
Various writs serve specific legal functions—writs of mandamus, certiorari, execution.
The phrase writ large means on a grand scale or in amplified form: The crisis is our national dysfunction writ large.
Writ requiring testimony
- summonsFormal court notification
- injunctionCourt-ordered behavioral requirement
- mandamusWrit ordering statutory duty
- certiorariHigher court's review order
habeas corpus · warrant · order · judgment · mandate · decree · pleading · complaint
Treated hide for manuscripts
- scrollWound document of parchment
- manuscriptOriginal text before publication
- charterFounding organizational document
- deedWritten property conveyance
proclamation · edict · instrument · codex · vellum · papyrus · sealed · inscribed
During the time that
- thouArchaic second-person pronoun
- theeSecond-person object, antiquated
- hathArchaic possessive verb
- yeArchaic second-person plural
doth · betwixt · forsooth · quoth · saith · wouldst · couldst · yon
subpoena
Writ requiring testimony
- summonsFormal court notification
- injunctionCourt-ordered behavioral requirement
- mandamusWrit ordering statutory duty
certiorari · habeas corpus · warrant · order · judgment · mandate · decree · pleading · complaint · brief
parchment
Treated hide for manuscripts
- scrollWound document of parchment
- manuscriptOriginal text before publication
- charterFounding organizational document
deed · proclamation · edict · instrument · codex · vellum · papyrus · sealed · inscribed · official
whilst
During the time that
ye · doth · betwixt · forsooth · quoth · saith · wouldst · couldst · yon · prithee
sacred
Worthy of reverence
testament · canonical · divine · revelation · prophetic · text · verse · chapter · psalm · proverb
manifest
Clearly apparent or displayed
- evidentClearly perceived or understood
- displayedPresented for observation
- amplifiedIncreased in strength
magnified · exemplified · embodied · symbolic · visible · apparent · obvious · unmistakable
- historical recordsdiary, census record, annual reviews, letter, government records
- Legal Latinab initio, bona fide, caveat emptor, certiorari, de facto
- court orderscourt order, injunction, order, subpoena, summons
- Court Procedureadjournment, civil procedure, trial procedure, trial process, criminal procedure
- legal processcourt summons, legal summons, service of process, summons, writs
- royal decreesroyal decree, royal decrees, decree, decrees, royal edict
writsuggestion
Idea proposed for consideration
request · recommendation · plea · petition · advisory
writoral agreement
spoken word · handshake deal · oral communication · verbal agreement · unwritten
- write downRecord in text
- write offCancel as unrecoverable
- written offRegarded as worthless
- in writingRecorded in text
- written in stonePermanently established, unalterable
- creative writingOriginal literary expression
write, writer, writing, written, handwriting, rewrite, writes, writers, unwritten