writ-room

English

Alternative forms

• writ room, writroom

Etymology

From writ +‎ room.

Noun

writ-room (plural writ-rooms)

1. A room where writs, writings, or written records are housed or kept; a law library.
   • 1842, House of Commons papers - Volume 23 - Page 35:

     I have two Assistants in the same Office with myself, and one in the large Writ Room behind. Every Document more than a year old, except Declarations, is kept in the Writ Room.

   • 1997, Ronald Wayne Robinson, Prison Hostage: The Siege of the Walls Prison in Huntsville, Texas - Page vii:

     At the same time Vera, Robertson and Quiroz were emptying the writ room of all its contents.

   • 2007, Bobby Delgado, Gangs, Prisons, Parole $ The Politics Behind Them - Page 166:

     I went to the writ-room also called the law library.

   • 2010, Daniel Burton-Rose, Guerrilla USA:

     McNeil Island Penitentiary contained a centrally located law library, which inmates referred to as the “writ room.”