Question

DEFINE THE FOLLOWING

7. Substantive question
8. Procedural question

19. Mandamus
20. Certiorari
21. Quo Warranto
22. Habeas corpus

Answer 1

19.

A writ or order that is issued from a court of superior jurisdiction that commands an inferior tribunal, corporation, Municipal Corporation, or individual to perform, or refrain from performing, a particular act, the performance or omission of which is required by law as an obligation.

20.

A type of writ, meant for rare use, by which an appellate court decides to review a case at its discretion. A writ of certiorari orders a lower court to deliver its record in a case so that the higher court may review it.

21.

a writ or legal action requiring a person to show by what warrant an office or franchise is held, claimed, or exercised.

22.

A writ of habeas corpus is used to bring a prisoner or other detainee (e.g. institutionalized mental patient) before the court to determine if the person's imprisonment or detention is lawful. A habeas petition proceeds as a civil action against the State agent (usually a warden) who holds the defendant in custody.

8.

Procedural questions, sometimes called 'How-questions', are questions whose induced response is typically a fragment, more or less large, of a procedure, i.e., a set of coherent instructions designed to reach a goal.