writ of right

English

Noun

writ of right (plural writs of right)

1. (law) A writ which lay to recover lands in fee simple, unjustly withheld from the true owner.
   • 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:

     a claimant in fee-simple may have a mere writ of right; which is in its nature the highest writ in the law

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “writ of right”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)