writ-room

plural writ-rooms · alternative writ room · alternative writroom

1. A room where writs, writings, or written records are housed or kept; a law library.

   I went to the writ-room also called the law library.

   2007, Bobby Delgado, Gangs, Prisons, Parole $ The Politics Behind Them - Page 166

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   I have two Assistants in the same Office with myself, and one in the large Writ Room behind. Every Document more than a year old, except Declarations, is kept in the Writ Room.

   1842, House of Commons papers - Volume 23 - Page 35

   At the same time Vera, Robertson and Quiroz were emptying the writ room of all its contents.

   1997, Ronald Wayne Robinson, Prison Hostage: The Siege of the Walls Prison in Huntsville, Texas - Page vii

   McNeil Island Penitentiary contained a centrally located law library, which inmates referred to as the “writ room.”

   2010, Daniel Burton-Rose, Guerrilla USA