English Dictionary

writ

IPA（発音記号）

/ɹɪt/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞 古語

(law) A written order, issued by a court, ordering someone to do (or stop doing) something. / Authority, power to enforce compliance. / (archaic) That which is written; writing.

日本語の意味

裁判所などによって発行される書面による命令（あるいはその権限） / （古風な意味）書かれたもの、文書、文章

The lawyer filed a writ to compel the company to hand over the documents.

弁護士は会社に書類を引き渡すよう命じる裁判所の命令を申請した。

意味（1）

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

意味（2）

Authority, power to enforce compliance.

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.

意味（3）

(archaic) That which is written; writing.

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

writs （ plural ）