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noun a common law writ issued by a superior court to one of inferior jurisdiction demanding the record of a particular case
originFrom the present passive infinitive of Latin certiōrō (“to make certain”), from the words used at the beginning of these writs when they were written in Latin: certiorārī volumus (“[we] wish to be made certain”).
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