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The charter of the Massachusetts Bay Colony is revoked via a scire facias writ issued by an English court.
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Massachusetts Bay Colony
1630–1691 English colony in North America
The Massachusetts Bay Colony (1628–1691), more formally the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, was an English settlement on the east coast of North America around Massachusetts Bay, one of the several colonies later reorganized as the Province of Massachusetts Bay. The lands of the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Scire facias
Type of writ in English law
In English law, a writ of scire facias is a writ founded upon some judicial record directing the sheriff to make the record known to a specified party, and requiring the defendant to show cause why the party bringing the writ should not be able to cite that record in his own…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)