Quo Warranto

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Definition of Quo Warranto

By what authority. A high prerogative writ by the Crown against one who claims or usurps any office, franchise or 1 iberty t to inquire by what authority he supports his claim. It lies also in cases of non-user, or mis-user, of a franchise, or where any public trust is executed without authority. The writ, however, has long been supplanted by the ” information in the nature of a writ of quo warranto,” which can be brought with the leave of the Court, at the relation of a private person

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