certiorari
Meanings
noun
- A grant of the right of an appeal to be heard by an appellate court where that court has discretion to choose which appeals it will hear.
- A grant of review of a government action by a court with discretion to make such a review.
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Etymology
From 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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