certiorari.
A grant of the right of an appeal to be heard by an appellate court where that court has discretion to choose which appeals it will hear.
Meaning & usage
A grant of the right of an appeal to be heard by an appellate court where that court has discretion to choose which appeals it will hear.
A grant of review of a government action by a court with discretion to make such a review.
Where this word comes from
From the present passive infinitive of Latin certiōrō (“to make certain”), from the words used at the beginning of these writs when they were written in Latin: certiorārī volumus (“[we] wish to be made certain”).
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