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‖ quo warranto, n.|kwəʊ wəˈræntəʊ|
[Med.L. ‘by what warrant’.]
A King's Bench writ formerly in use, by which a person or persons were called upon to show by what warrant he or they held, claimed, or exercised an office or franchise.
[1292Britton i. xx. §2 Nos brefs..del Quo warranto.] 1535tr. Littleton's Nat. Brev. 211 (Stanf.) A wryt de Quo warranto. 1555in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxford 224 To make answere to the Quo Warranto. 1621H. Elsing Debates Ho. Lords (1870) 5 He conceived noe charge against Yelverton for theis 3201 quo warrantos. 1681Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) I. 153 A writt of quo warranto is delivered to the sheriffs of London against the charter of the citty. a1734R. North Life of Lord Keeper North (1742) 129 That famous Practice..of Quo Warranto's against some Corporations. 1805Jeffrey in Edin. Rev. VI. 19 We would also move for a Quo Warranto against the spirits of the river and the mountain.
Hence † quo waˈrranto v., in pass., to be served with a writ of quo warranto. Obs.
1690J. Palmer in Andros Tracts I 60 It can..render them liable to be questioned and Quo warranto'd for their Malefesance. 1691C. Mather ibid. II. 331 Nor could you have proceeded again as formerly upon your charter, without being quo-warrantoed. |