Close Writs
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Writs directed to the sheriff instead of to the lord.
3 Reeve, Hist, Eng. Law, 45.
Writs containing grants from the crown to particular persons, and for particular purposes, which, not being intended for public inspection, are closed up and sealed on the outside, instead of being open and having the seal appended by a strip of parchment.
2 Bl. Comm. 346; Sewell, Sheriffs, 372.