withholding vs writ

withholding

noun
  • The deduction of taxes from an employee's salary. 

  • The tax so deducted, and paid to local or national government. 

writ

noun
  • A written order, issued by a court, ordering someone to do (or stop doing) something. 

  • Authority, power to enforce compliance. 

How often have the words withholding and writ occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )