quo warranto

English Thesaurus

1. a hearing to determine by what authority someone has an office or franchise or liberty (noun.act)

hypernym	:	hearing,
definition	:	(law) a proceeding (usually by a court) where evidence is taken for the purpose of determining an issue of fact and reaching a decision based on that evidence (noun.act)

domain category	:	jurisprudence, law,
definition	:	the collection of rules imposed by authority (noun.group)