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Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.

coram nobis

[Latin "before us"] Hist. 1. A writ of error taken from a judgment of the King's Bench. 9 "Before us" refers to the sovereign, in contrast to the writ coram uobis ("before you"), which refers to any court other than King's Bench, esp. the Court of Common Pleas. 2. A writ of error directed to a court for review of its own judgment and predicated on alleged errors of fact. - Also termed writ of error coram nobis; writ of coram nobis.

writ o f error coram nobis

See CORAM NOBIS.

writ of coram nobis

See CORAM NOBIS.