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Writ of right   /rɪt əv raɪt/   Listen
Writ of right

noun
1.
A writ ordering that land be restored to its rightful owner.





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"Writ of right" Quotes from Famous Books



... a writ of right, Lord Norbury observed that it was not sufficient for a demandant to say he "claimed by descent." "Such an answer," he continued, "would be a shrewd one for a sweep, who got into your house by coming down the chimney; and it would be an easy, as well ...
— Law and Laughter • George Alexander Morton
... was cast. Mr. Horatio Fitzharding Fitzfunk's former avocations became intensely irksome—if he served a writ it was no longer a "writ of right." Copies for "Jenkins" were consigned to "Tompkins;" "Brown" declined pleading to "Smith" and Smith declared off Brown's declaration. In inquiries after "solvent acceptors," Mr. Horatio Fitzharding Fitzfunk ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 1, October 23, 1841 • Various


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