Writ vs Petition - What's the difference?
writ | petition |
(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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(obsolete) that which is written; writing
* Spenser
* Knolles
(dated, nonstandard)
* (Omar Khayyam) (in translation)
A formal, written request made to an official person or organized body, often containing many signatures.
A compilation of signatures built in order to exert moral authority in support of a specific cause.
(legal) A formal written request for judicial action.
A prayer; a supplication; an entreaty.
* Bible, 1. Macc. vii. 37
As nouns the difference between writ and petition
is that writ is (legal) a written order, issued by a court, ordering someone to do (or stop doing) something while petition is petition.As a verb writ
is (dated|nonstandard).writ
English
(wikipedia writ)Noun
(en noun)- 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.
- Then to his hands that writ he did betake, / Which he disclosing read, thus as the paper spake.
- Babylon, so much spoken of in Holy Writ
Derived terms
* drop the writ * Holy Writ * writ of habeas corpusReferences
* Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia (Webster)Verb
(head)- (Dryden)
- The moving finger writes, and having writ , not all your piety or wit can lure it back to cancel half a line
Usage notes
* The form writ'' survives in standard dialects only in the phrase ''writ large , though it remains common in some dialects (e.g. Scouse).petition
English
(wikipedia petition)Noun
(en noun)- A house of prayer and petition for thy people.