ERROR

In Law, a writ of error is one which authorizes the judges of a superior court to examine a record on which judgment has been given in an inferior court on an allegation of error in pleading a proce , ., and to affirm or reverse the same. It is the common remedy for erroneous judgments in courts of record. Error lies from inferior courts of record, and from the Common Pleas, to the King's Bench; from each of the three superior courts to the judges of the other two sitting in the Exchequer Chamber; from the Exchequer Chamber, and in certain cases directly, to the House of Lords. It lies in criminal as well as civil cases. Writ of error must be brought within twenty years. Correctly speaking, it is applicable only for the reversal of judgments on account of errors in law, and not of fact. [s. 428]