certiorari

certiorari has 2 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 10.

Definitions

• n.. A writ issuing out of chancery, or a superior court, to call up the records of a inferior court, or remove a cause there depending, in order that the party may have more sure and speedy justice, or that errors and irregularities may be corrected. It is obtained upon complaint of a party that he has not received justice, or can not have an impartial trial in the inferior court.
• n.. a common law writ issued by a superior court to one of inferior jurisdiction demanding the record of a particular case