quo warranto

1. 1.

   a hearing to determine by what authority someone has an office or franchise or liberty

   Broaderhearing

   law

Questions about quo warranto

What does quo warranto mean?

quo warranto means "a hearing to determine by what authority someone has an office or franchise or liberty".

Is quo warranto a common word?

quo warranto is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.