WRITS

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  WRITS, JUDICIAL, practice. In England those writs which issue from the 
  common law courts during the progress of a suit, are described as judicial 
  writs, by way of distinction from the original one obtained from chancery. 3 
  Bl. Com. 282.