Sp. In Spanish law, an officer appointed to make Inquiry, put a petitioner in possession of land prayed for, and execute the orders of the executive in that behalf. See Lecompte v. U. S.t 11 How. 115 126, 13 L. Ed. 627. … [Read more...]

Latin: In the Roman law. A girding or preparing for battle. Testamentum in procinctu, a will made by a soldier, while girding himself, or preparing to engage in battle. Adams, Rom. Ant. 62; Calvin. … [Read more...]

Scotch law. This imports that one is acting as attorney as to his own property. When an assignment of a thing is made, as a debt, and a procuration or power of attorney is given to the assignee to receive the same, he is in such case procurator in rein suam. … [Read more...]

A stipulation not to proceed against a party is an agreement not to sue. To sue a man is to proceed against him. … [Read more...]

In a general sense, the form and manner of conducting juridical business before a court or judicial officer; regular and orderly progress in form of law; including all possible steps in an action from its commencement to the execution of judgment. In a more particular sense, any application to a court of justice, however made, for aid in the enforcement of rights, for relief, … [Read more...]