This is the writ, and a copy of it must be served on the defendant who enters an appearance by filling in another form and leaving it at the office from which the writ was issued.

这就是传票，随同副本一份送达被告，被告则需到场填写另一份表格并将其交到签发传票的办公室。

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The writ system stipulated the form of action, which formed the principle of procedures preceding right in the common law.

令状对诉讼形式的规定使普通法形成了程序先于权利原则，并使英国法在司法审判中通过判例得以积累。

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Although we've long imagined our memories as a stable form of information, a data file writ into the circuits of the brain, that persistence is an illusion.

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