Unscramble

c 3 e 1 r 1 t 1 i 1 o 1 r 1 a 1 r 1 i 1

10 letters · 12 points in Scrabble

Meaning

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”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0

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