Opinion ID: 2399351
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Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Certiorari Proceeding

Text: The petitioners filed this action pursuant to Del.Code Ann. tit. 10, § 562, which provides: The Superior Court may frame and issue all remedial writs, including writs of habeas corpus and certiorari, or other process, necessary for bringing the actions in that Court to trial and for carrying the judgments of the Court into execution. All writs shall be granted of course and shall be in such form and returnable at such time as may be prescribed by the rules of the Court, or otherwise as the particular case may require. The common law writ of certiorari lies to review acts that are judicial or quasi-judicial in nature. [3] The purpose of certiorari is to correct errors of law, to review proceedings not conducted according to law, and to restrain an excess of jurisdiction. [4] It is well established that a writ of certiorari proceeding in the Superior Court is the appropriate cause of action for determining whether, on the face of the record, the City of Dover Planning Commission exceeded its powers or failed to conform to the requirements of law. [5]