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  1. In law, a document issued by a court
  2. requiring performance of certain actions.
  3. These include a writ of delivery (for the
  4. seizure of goods), writ of execution
  5. (enforcement of a judgement), writ of summons
  6. (commencing proceedings in the High Court),
  7. or writ of habeas corpus. Examples include a
  8. writ of habeas corpus, a writ of certiorari
  9. by which the US Supreme Court calls up cases
  10. from inferior courts for review, or writ of
  11. attachment of property in civil litigation.
  12.