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