writ of right

noun

A writ which lay to recover lands in fee simple, unjustly withheld from the true owner.

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Meanings

nounwrit of right (plural writs of right)

plural writs of right

  1. lawA writ which lay to recover lands in fee simple, unjustly withheld from the true owner.

    a claimant in fee-simple may have a mere writ of right; which is in its nature the highest writ in the law

    1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC
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