Sentence examples for writ by which from inspiring English sources

The Guantánamo cases test the role of the federal courts in habeas corpus, the ancient writ by which a prisoner can challenge the lawfulness of his imprisonment.

Originally, carrying out the use depended on the conscience of the person entrusted with the property, because there was no writ by which the common-law courts could enforce it.

In a list of orders circulated today (PDF), the Court briefly noted the denial of a writ of certiorari, the official procedure by which a higher court requests the records of a lower court and after further argument passes its own judgment.

Even where the Albanian government's writ runs, which is not everywhere, its army and police, despite new equipment and training supplied by international donors, have trouble controlling the borders.Yet, given his aims, Mr Meta willingly enough has to resist, as best he may, the nationalist (or merely criminal) groups and the pressures of those who go along with them.

A former MP who stood down at the 1992 election, Lord Cranborne made constitutional history months later when he was appointed to the House of Lords by a "writ of summons" which allowed him to take up his seat even though his father, the Marquis of Salisbury, was still alive.

There are different issues with peers - they gain entry to the House of Lords by virtue of a writ of summons which confers membership until death.

Either a judge of the lower court or a justice of the Supreme Court would have to sign the writ of error (which was drafted and signed by counsel) before the Supreme Court could hear the case.

Taney, whose Southern sympathies were hardly a secret, promptly issued the writ, which was just as promptly ignored by Gen. George Cadwalader, acting under the president's orders as the commander of Fort McHenry.

To force Apple to comply, the DOJ is relying on the All Writs Act, which was signed into law by President George Washington in 1789.

We received none directly: only a bungled "gagging" writ, which failed to prevent publication.

That would be difficult, however, because it requires seeking a writ of mandamus, which are granted only in extraordinary circumstances.