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quo warranto

quo warranto noun: a legal proceeding used to challenge the right of an individual or corporation to hold a public office or to exercise a certain franchise or privilege.

Noun

quo warranto (plural quo warrantos)

  1. A legal proceeding used to challenge the right of an individual or corporation to hold a public office or to exercise a certain franchise or privilege.

quo warranto meaning in Tamil

quo warranto in Tamil

உரிமையேது வினா

Forms of quo warranto

pluralquo warrantos

Origin of quo warranto

Borrowed from Medieval Latin quō warrantō (“by what warrant”).

Questions about quo warranto

What does quo warranto mean?
Quo warranto means a legal proceeding used to challenge the right of an individual or corporation to hold a public office or to exercise a certain franchise or privilege.
What is quo warranto in Tamil?
Quo warranto in Tamil is உரிமையேது வினா. See Quo warranto meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is quo warranto?
Quo warranto is a noun.
What is the plural of quo warranto?
The plural of quo warranto is quo warrantos.

Words near quo warranto in the dictionary

  1. Quneitra
  2. qungua
  3. Qungzusian
  4. quo
  5. quo pro quid
  6. quo warranto
  7. quo warrantos
  8. quoad
  9. quoad hoc
  10. quoad hunc
  11. quoad omnia

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Adapted from Wiktionary: quo warranto (page history and authors); quo warranto (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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