When vacancies happen in the representation from any state, the executive authority thereof shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies.
He preserves the peace, arrests persons charged with crime, serves writs and other processes in both civil and criminal cases, makes proclamation of all elections, summons jurors, and ministers to the courts of his county.
He levies executions, serves warrants, and executes all thewrits of the judge of the superior court.
There were writs out against him in Essex, Suffolk, and Norfolk, so he sold off his goods and moved to another inn at Coventry, where he set up at the sign of the Golden Dragon under the name of John Smith.
But Winter was bitter against him, and writs were taken out for Warwickshire.
Therefore he moved that an address might be made to the King to order the writs to be issued.
With the same mysterious silence on the cause of so unexpected a measure, the writs were issued for a general election, and parliament was required to assemble as soon as possible.
Three weeks later writs were issued for a parliament which included four knights from every shire.
With this object a parliament was summoned, at first by the Duke of Aquitaine in his father's name, and afterwards more regularly by writs issued under the great seal.
Besides the ordinary tenants of the crown, writs were sent to the chief magnates of Ireland and Scotland; and Wales and its march were called upon to furnish all the men that could be mustered.
This appeal to the landed gentry alarmed the king so much that he issued counter-writs to the sheriffs ordering them to send the knights, not to the baronial camp at St. Alban's, but to his own court at Windsor.
On the day after the signature of the treaty, Henry, who accompanied Simon to the west, issued from Worcester the writs for a parliament that sat in London from January to March in 1265.
Among the matters enumerated in the writs as specially demanding attention was the "establishment of our realm of Scotland".
Yet from this moment writs ran in Edward's name, and under his father's direction the young prince was free to buy his experience as he would.
Boroughs had been enfranchised, and again disfranchised, apparently from no motive but pure caprice; writs of summons had been withheld from peers.
As to the affairs of the kingdom, he ordered writs to be issued for the calling of a Convention, which was to consist of all persons who had sat in parliament during the reign of His Majesty Charles II.
His enemies knew his purpose: by May 27th writs informed England that the Scots were gathering on heights and morasses inaccessible to cavalry.
At Chester writs were issued in the King's name for the meeting of parliament and the preservation of the peace.
When the writs came out, moreover, it was found that they had been made returnable five days later than the specified time.
It desired them, therefore, to show their good intentions by settling the qualification of members and issuing writs for the vacant seats by the next Friday.
The writs ran in the name of the Commonwealth, and every one who had served against the Parliament was disqualified.
Randolph journeyed on horseback twice to Rhode Island, and once to Connecticut, serving hiswrits upon those colonies.
And these writs shall be obeyed and executed in the same manner as writs and judgments sealed with our name and royal seal.
Writs with seal and record shall receive the fees which by our royal tariffs of fees for our Audiencia have been commanded for them.
In plain English, they were both taken in execution on the same day, by virtue of two writs of capias ad satisfaciendum, for the damages and costs due to Mr. Wigley; viz.
These are the abbreviations of the technical words by which are known the two writs of execution against a debtor's person, and his goods.
Writs of assistance issued, empowering officers to enter any house at any time, to search for smuggled goods.
In fact, they felt an inhuman delight--at least the father and his eldest son did--in levying the execution of the writsin the most pitiless and oppressive manner.
This intrepid man and these resolute young men, aided by the writs of rebellion and the executive authorities, had nerved themselves up to the collection of tithe, through a spirit that was akin to vengeance.
Because all writs of summons abate by the king's death in parliament; 3.
Of the surprise with which the writs were received by many the reader may judge.
In the mean while, the writs for the new parliament had been issued; and, as there was no court to influence, no interference of the military to control the elections, the result may be fairly taken to express the sense of the country.
The writs went out at the beginning of December, accompanied with the usual circulars; to which the queen added a promise, that if the mayors and sheriffs[610] would consult her wishes she would remember their services.
But between the issue of the writs and the 20th of January a blow had fallen on England which left room for no other thought.
The court meanwhile had had advices from England, and the writs were sustained.
Writs of election were issued by order of the Governor in Council under the Great Seal of the province, were tested by him, and were returnable in forty days.
By him were writs issued for the election of representatives to sit in the Commons House of Assembly.
These new applications came at a time when the public mind was much exercised, and there was a determination to question the legality of such unrestrained power as the writs implied.
Upon the king’s death, the existing writs had only a six months’ later continuance, when new applications must be made under the new reign.
Mr. Robert Steward had caused the Attorney-General to serve writs on several members of the Town Council, with a view to testing the validity of the renewal of leases by that body under a custom then in force in the town.
More power was placed in the hands of the revenue officers by the issue of writs of assistance enabling them to search for dutiable articles in any place without alleging specific information.
These writs were lawful and were specially justifiable in time of war.
The Parliament was dissolved and writs for an election, returnable on the 11th of April, issued.
The writs for the new elections were issued in haste.
Sir James was induced to put a period to the session that he might be enabled to issue writs for a new House.
Writs still exist in abundance such as that by which Walter le Rous is "held to bail in eight oxen and four cart-horses to come before the King on the day specified" for attendance in Parliament.
It was no doubt with the same purpose that the writs of Earl Simon ordered the choice of knights in each shire for his famous Parliament of 1265.
The clause is repeated in the writs of the present day, but its practical effect was foiled almost from the first by the resolute opposition of those to whom it was addressed.
The writsof "quo warranto" were roughly met here and there.
By the space of fortie dais, before this assemblie be begun, the prince sendeth his writs vnto all his nobilitie particularlie, summoning them to appeare at the said court.
The meanes and messengers also to determine those causes are our writs or breefes, whereof there are some originall and some iudiciall.
The legal provision was afterwards enforced by writs addressed to the sheriffs and justices, and the name of Pale was perhaps first given to the district so enclosed.
Parliaments were frequent; andwrits are extant which show that he, as well as Edward III.
In 1311 writs for a Parliament to be held at Kilkenny were issued by the justiciary Wogan to Richard, Earl of Ulster, and eighty-seven other men of name, to the prelates and ecclesiastical magnates, and to the sheriffs.
English barons who had once sat in Parliament claimed an hereditary right to their writs of summons.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "writs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
