Writ and Sequence

noun

• Law) a legal document issued by a court or judicial officer. (.
  • synonyms: judicial writ

• (obs.) 3d pers. sing. pres. of Write, for writeth.
• (Archaicimp.&p.p.) of Write.
• imp. & p. p. of Write.
• (n.) That which is written; writing; scripture; -- applied especially to the Scriptures or the books of the Old and New testaments; as, sacred writ.
• (n.) An instrument in writing, under seal, in an epistolary form, issued from the proper authority, commanding the performance or nonperformance of some act by the person to whom it is directed; as, a writ of entry, of error, of execution, of injunction, of mandamus, of return, of summons, and the like.

Writ is an order of the court enforcing the law or its separate orders by directing that some act be performed, as opposed to an order of judgment declaring a debt (as in a case for damages in tort or breach of contract) or enjoining some future action (as in a case to enforce the terms of an agreement or to prevent one person from causing or threatening harm to another). There were in the common law many different types of writs. A few still in use are listed hereinafter. Writs are obtained by motions or petitions to a court having jurisdiction.

noun

• Serial arrangement in which things follow in logical order or a recurrent pattern.
  • usage: "the sequence of names was alphabetical"; "he invented a technique to determine the sequence of base pairs in DNA"
• A following of one thing after another in time.
  • usage: "the doctor saw a sequence of patients"
  • synonyms: chronological sequence, succession, successiveness, chronological succession
• Film consisting of a succession of related shots that develop a given subject in a movie.
  • synonyms: episode
• The action of following in order.
  • usage: "he played the trumps in sequence"
  • synonyms: succession
• Several repetitions of a melodic phrase in different keys.

verb

• Arrange in a sequence.
• Determine the order of constituents in.
  • usage: "They sequenced the human genome"

• (n.) That which follows or succeeds as an effect; sequel; consequence; result.
• (n.) Simple succession or the coming after in time, without asserting or implying causative energy; as, the reactions of chemical agents may be conceived as merely invariable sequences.
• (n.) A hymn introduced in the Mass on certain festival days, and recited or sung immediately before the gospel, and after the gradual or introit, whence the name.
• (n.) Any succession of chords (or harmonic phrase) rising or falling by the regular diatonic degrees in the same scale; a succession of similar harmonic steps.
• (n.) Three or more cards of the same suit in immediately consecutive order of value; as, ace, king, and queen; or knave, ten, nine, and eight.
• (n.) All five cards, of a hand, in consecutive order as to value, but not necessarily of the same suit; when of one suit, it is called a sequence flush.
• (n.) A melodic phrase or passage successively repeated one tone higher; a rosalia.
• (n.) The state of being sequent; succession; order of following; arrangement.