Legal Definition and Related Resources of Writ of error

A writ by which a superior court commands an inferior to send up the record of a proceeding for review. A writ of error lay only to a court of record (88 Pa. St. 291) after final judgment (2 Mass. 445), and lies only to errors of law (141 Mass. 194) apparent of record (72 N. Y. 393). Error was the appropriate remedy at common law to review proceedings at law, while an appeal (q. v.) lay in equity. Writ of Error Coram Nobis. The ordinary writ of error which issued from a superior to an inferior court. Writ of Error Coram Vobis. A writ which issued to review proceedings previously had in the court issuing it. See “Coram Vobis.” it was called at length in the old books, breve de errore eorrigendo, a writ about correcting error; the abbreviation of which (breve de errore) has been literally translated, “writ of error.” Sometimes simply termed “error.” Deiined by Lord Coke to be a writ which “lieth where a man is grieved by any error in the foundation, proceeding, judgment, or execution [of a suit], and thereupon it is called breve de errore eorrigendo.” Co. Litt. 288b.

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