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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Certiorari \Cer`ti*o*ra"ri\, n. [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. Note: 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: certiorari n : a common law writ issued by a superior court to one of inferior jurisdiction demanding the record of a particular case [syn: {writ of certiorari}]
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