Right
Defined in 3 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Bouvier (1914), Stimson (1881)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
WRIT OF. A procedure for the recovery of real property after not more than sixty years' adverse possession; the highest writ in the law, sometimes called, to distinguish it from others of the droitural class, the "writ of right proper;" Abolished by 3 & 4 Wm. IV. c. 27. 3 Steph. Comm. 392,
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
WRIT OF. See Writ of Right.
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
writ of. In general^ a writ brought upon title to" recover the full right to a thing; a writ droitural, not possessory. Particularly, the writ for a tenant in fee to recover lands and tenements, counting upon his own title as superior to that of his adversary, the chief real action. This was a writ patent as, distinguished from a writ of right close, which lay either for a tenant in capite; or for tenants in ancient demesne, or their lords, about lands, rents, or services. So a writ of right of advowaon, dower (where a widow endowed had been disseised), etc.: v. Admwson, Bower, Be dote. Search, Way, Bill, II. 4.