Editing Writ of prohibition (section)

===Contesting a writ of prohibition ===
If a party wanted to contest the granting of a writ of prohibition, they could do so in two ways. The first was a contempt proceeding called the "Attachment on Prohibition", wherein the plaintiff and defendant would plead before the managing court on the validity of the writ.{{sfn |Gray The writ of prohibition |page=xxii}} Alternatively, the parties could seek to reverse the writ of prohibition by seeking a writ of Consultation.

As writs of prohibition were rather easy to obtain, in the late thirteenth century, writs of Consultation came into use.<ref>{{cite book |author=John Robert Wright |title=The Church and the English Crown 1305–1334 |year=1980 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HbxmAAAAMAAJ |page=184 |publisher=Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies |isbn=9780888440488 |access-date=2020-09-17 |archive-date=2022-04-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220419113414/https://books.google.com/books?id=HbxmAAAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref> If a prohibited party or judge felt that a case rightly fell within the prohibited court's jurisdiction, they could question its appropriateness before the Chancellor. If the Chancellor agreed, he could issue a writ of Consultation, reversing the writ of prohibition and allowing the case to continue in the ecclesiastical court.<ref>{{cite book |author=Robert C. Palmer |title=Selling the Church: The English Parish in Law, Commerce, and Religion, 1350–1550 |year=2002 |pages=22–3 |publisher=Univ of North Carolina Press |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dXR1AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA21 |isbn=9780807861394 |access-date=2020-09-17 |archive-date=2023-08-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230802164433/https://books.google.com/books?id=dXR1AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA21 |url-status=live }}</ref>