writ

oikeuden määräys, haaste puhekieltä A written order, issued by a court, ordering someone to do (or stop doing) something.
authority, power to enforce compliance
(quote-book)

We can't let them take advantage of the fact that there are so many areas of the world where no one's writ runs.

Then to his hands that writ he did betake, / Which he disclosing read, thus as the paper spake.

Babylon, so much spoken of in Holy Writ

(rfquotek)

The moving finger writes, and having writ, not all your piety or wit can lure it back to cancel half a line(�)

For as this is the liquor of modern historians, nay, perhaps their muse, if we may believe the opinion of Butler, who attributes inspiration to ale, it ought likewise to be the potation of their readers, since every book ought to be read with the same spirit and in the same manner as it is writ.