Certiorari
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A writ issuing out of chancery, or a superior court, to call upthe records of a inferior court, or remove a cause there depending,in order that the party may have more sure and speedy justice, orthat errors and irreguarities may be corrected. It is obtained uponcomplaint of a party that he has not received justice, or can nothave an impartial trial in the inferior court.
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