A positive act by which a legal
right is relinquished.
Such behavior as manifests a
disposition to perversity. It must be under such circumstances and conditions
that the party doing the act, or failing to act, is conscious that his conduct
will, in all common probability, result in Injury.
Written authority. (2) An order
from a court, to an officer, directing the officer to arrest a person.
A guaranty concerning goods or
land, which is expressly or impliedly made to a purchaser by the vendor.
Free of any prejudgment, or bias
which interfere with a person's impartiality and sense of justice.
A written court order, or a
judicial process. It is issued by authority of a court, and directed to the
sheriff, or other officer authorized by law to execute the same. He must return
it, with a brief statement of what he has done in pursuance of it, to the court
or officer who issued it. Writs are either (a) prerogative, when the granting
of them is in the discretion of the court, as in the case of habeas corpus; or
(b) of right, when the applicant is entitled as of course. The latter class
includes original writs, by which an action is commenced, e.g., a summons, and
judicial writs; under which head almost all writs at present fall, e. g., writs
in aid, and writs of execution. (3) An action, e.g., the writs of waste and
partition.
