Usually means: Legal challenge to official's authority.
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  1. quo warranto: Merriam-Webster
  2. quo warranto: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. quo warranto: Collins English Dictionary
  4. quo warranto: Vocabulary.com
  5. quo warranto: Wordnik
  6. quo warranto: Wiktionary
  7. quo warranto: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. quo warranto: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. quo warranto: Dictionary.com
  10. quo warranto: Online Etymology Dictionary
  11. Quo Warranto, Quo warranto: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Quo warranto: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. quo warranto: Rhymezone
  14. Quo warranto: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. Quo Warranto: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  16. quo warranto: FreeDictionary.org
  17. quo warranto: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. quo warranto: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. quo warranto: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  3. quo warranto: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  7. International Law Dictionary (No longer online)
  8. Quo warranto: Legal dictionary
  9. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (quo warranto)

▸ noun:  (law) A writ brought before a proper tribunal, to inquire by what warrant a person or a corporation acts, or exercises certain powers.

Similar:
warrant, dock warrant, general warrant, arrest warrant, warrantor, search warrant, warrant of arrest, bench warrant, writ of inquiry, writ of right, more...

Opposite:
quid pro quo, status quo, in status quo, in quo, in quo ante

Phrases:
Quo warranto petition against Maria Lourdes Sereno, more...
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Similar:
warrant, dock warrant, general warrant, arrest warrant, warrantor, search warrant, warrant of arrest, bench warrant, writ of inquiry, writ of right, more...

Opposite:
quid pro quo, status quo, in status quo, in quo, in quo ante

Phrases:
Quo warranto petition against Maria Lourdes Sereno, more...



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