{"id":6004,"date":"2017-11-01T03:11:33","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T03:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=6004"},"modified":"2017-11-01T03:19:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T03:19:00","slug":"writ-of-error","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=6004","title":{"rendered":"Writ of Error – directs a lower court to deliver the record in the case for review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Writ of Error<\/span>:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c<\/strong>(15c.) l. A writ issued by an appellate court directing a lower court to<\/strong><\/span>
\ndeliver the record in the case for review.<\/strong> Cf. ASSIGNMENT OF ERROR.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Excerpt from Benjamin J. Shipman, Handbook of Common-Law\u00a0<\/a>Pleading<\/a> \u00a7 337, at 538 (Henry Winthrop Ballantine ed., 3d ed.<\/em>
\n1923)<\/em>:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cThe writ of error is the most common of all the forms of\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>remedial process available to an unsuccessful party after a final\u00a0determination of the merits of the action, and is in common use\u00a0in this country at the present time, where the common-law\u00a0modes of procedure are followed.\u00a0 Its object… is to obtain a\u00a0reversal of the judgment, either by reason of some error in fact\u00a0affecting the validity and regularity of the legal decision itself,\u00a0or on account of some mistake or error in law, apparent upon\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>the face of the record, from which the judgment appears to\u00a0<\/span>have been given for the wrong party.<\/span>\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n