Robert Cormier
WRIT A precept in writing, couched in the form of a letter, RUNNING in the name of the king, president, or state, issuing from a court of justice, and sealed with its seal, addressed to a sheriff or other officer of the law, or directly to the person the court desires to command, either as the commencement of a suit or other proceeding or as incidental to it's progress, and requiring the performance of a specified act, or giving authority and commission to have it done.