A legal document or writ served during daytime hours; a writing or notice given during the day.
From 'day' and 'writ' (Old English 'writ' from 'wrītan,' to write). Legal terminology combining temporal specification with the formal written document.
Medieval legal systems were very precise about when documents could be served—daywrit specified daylight service, which mattered before electric lighting made 'any time' legally possible!
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