1. a court order by which a case tried in a lower court is reviewed in a higher court
   • ● an application for an order of certiorari
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   Word Originlate Middle English: from Law Latin, ‘to be informed’, a phrase originally occurring at the start of the writ, from certiorare ‘inform’, comparative of certus ‘certain’.

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