writ of error

1. 1.

   a judicial writ from an appellate court ordering the court of record to produce the records of trial

   Broaderwrit

   law

Questions about writ of error

What does writ of error mean?

writ of error means "a judicial writ from an appellate court ordering the court of record to produce the records of trial".

Is writ of error a common word?

writ of error 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.