In this article, the author offers an analysis of the legislative framework of the writ procedure in the common law system, based on the example of the civil procedural regulations in the United States of America and those in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The author outlines the main characteristics and procedural aspects of the examination of cases in the writ procedure in the common law system, highlighting the differences in the regulations adopted in the civil procedural legislation of the Republic of Moldova. In the analysis presented in this article, the author emphasizes the basic characteristics of the writ procedure – the absence of a legal litigation and the indisputability of the creditor’s claims, the importance of holding by the parties of the documents – the only type of evidence admissible in the writ procedure. At the same time, the author highlights the importance of the existence of the writ procedure – a simplified judicial procedure, which offers to the litigant parties the possibility to obtain resolution of non-litigant cases in a much faster and more efficient way, compared to the duration of the classic judicial procedure.