WRIT OF ERROR, practice. A writ issued out of a court of competent jurisdiction, directed to the judge of a court of record in which final judgment has been given, and commanding them, in some cases, themselves to examine the re-cord; ...
Writ of error coram nobis
Definition
: a writ calling the attention of the trial court to facts which do not appear on the record despite the exercise of reasonable diligence by the defendant and which if known and established at the time a judgment ...
In that case, a writ of error lies on the judgment which may be rendered upon it. And a writ of error will also lie on a judgment on a case stated when the parties have agreed to it.
A final major development in the redress movement has been the use of coram nobis, the common-law writ of error, to reopen the Korematsu, Yasui, and Hirabayashi convictions.
 See also: Wrong, Writ of execution, Writ of certiorari, Writ of replevin, Year books
  
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