from the "Attorney's Pocket Dictionary":


<FONT face="Arial Narrow" color=#0000ff size=4>writ of error coram nobis

</FONT>A writ for the purpose of correcting a judgment in the same court on the ground of an error of fact, which was unknown when the judgment was pronounced and which, if known, would have prevented the judgment. Such a fact should not only have been unknown at the time of the judgment, but also should have been such that the party could not by the exercise of reasonable diligence come to know of it in time so that he may have presented the same to the court. Such a writ enabled the court to correct its own error.



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