Word: writ
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...days of the happy and cosmopolitan Jubilee are gone forever. It is impossible at present to effect an entrance without a birth certificate, a marriage license, or a writ of habeas corpus. Freshmen themselves can't get in. The rules have become so rigid that every year a small crime wave sweeps over Cambridge at Jubilee time. The following incidents were the result of last Friday's festivities...
...Supreme Court of the U. S. the mooted question of whether a criminal case can be thrown out of court because of the presence in the Grand Jury room of an official sten ographer to report the indictment proceedings. This point will be raised as the result of a writ of error in the case of George A. Storrs and others, charged with using the mails to defraud, Which was dismissed in the District Court of Utah because of the presence in the Grand Jury room of an official stenographer. Some state courts have held that official stenographers have...
...Writ in Latin, called "degree...
...together with the Attorney General, is a standing committee of the House of Lords. Its power is very great?in fact final, so far as the House of Lords is concerned. The King, who is still the fountain of honor, can himself recognize a peerage claim by issuing a writ of summons to the claimant, but he never does so now. If he did, the House could not refuse the peer a seat; but, could?and doubtless would, if it disproved the King's action?refuse to grant him the precedence to which the date of his dignity entitled...
...famed, familiar ribaldries of this satirist in clay-his grotesquely vivacious figures fully clothed, often painted as well, postured in the more ridiculous attitudes pf contemporary life. These, to be sure, were there, but the prudent, hurrying over them as if they had been jokes in Holy Writ, discovered, in addition, many heads of classic purity, some exquisite busts of children, a big torso in the antique manner. Upon these things lay the lustre of an immemorial beauty that was, assuredly, Classicism. And because he had caught some glimpse of that chaste, magnificent and lonely shape whose massive sandal...