Definition of "writs" []

• Plural form of writ. (noun)

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• "-- Well, and does Louisa grow a fine girl, is she likely to have her mother's complexion, and does Tom polish in French air -- Henry I mean -- and Kenney is not so fidgety, and YOU sit down sometimes for a quiet half-hour or so, and all is comfortable, no bills (that you call writs) nor anything else (that you are equally sure to miscall) to annoy you?"
• "Something of form, which was usual in writs, proclamations, or circular letters, issued by the king, v. 1."
• "Those petitions -- petitions, rather -- which are called writs of habeas corpus, date all the way back to the 13th century Magna Carta."