Writ vs Mandate - What's the difference?

Writ is a related term of mandate.

is that writ is (dated|nonstandard) while mandate is .

is (legal) a written order, issued by a court, ordering someone to do (or stop doing) something.

(wikipedia writ)

(en noun)

(legal) A written order, issued by a court, ordering someone to do (or stop doing) something.

authority, power to enforce compliance

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We can't let them take advantage of the fact that there are so many areas of the world where no one's writ runs.

(obsolete) that which is written; writing

* Spenser

Then to his hands that writ he did betake, / Which he disclosing read, thus as the paper spake.

* Knolles

Babylon, so much spoken of in Holy Writ

* drop the writ * Holy Writ * writ of habeas corpus

* Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia (Webster)

(head)

(dated, nonstandard)

(Dryden)

* (Omar Khayyam) (in translation)

The moving finger writes, and having writ , not all your piety or wit can lure it back to cancel half a line

* The form writ'' survives in standard dialects only in the phrase ''writ large , though it remains common in some dialects (e.g. Scouse).

(wikipedia mandate)

(en noun)

An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept.

(mandat)

to authorize

to make mandatory

* mandatary * mandator * mandatory

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