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If somebody is bringing a royal close writ of right directed to the bailiffs of the manor it cannot be opened unless in full court.

The writ is a remedial mandatory writ of right existing by the common law, i.e. it is one of the extraordinary remedies—such as mandamus, certiorari and prohibitions, which the superior courts may grant.

While giving a judgment on a writ of right, Lord Norbury observed that it was not sufficient for a demandant to say he "claimed by descent."

Here he hath his fixed and invariable remedies by praecipes and writs of right.

It is twenty-five years since my father brought his writ of right, and though baffled, he was not beaten.