Lat. In the civil law. Restoration or restitution to the previous condition. This was effected by the prtetor on equitable grounds, at the prayer of an Injured party, by rescinding or annulling a contract or transaction valid by the strict law, or annulling a change in the legal condition produced by an omission, and restoring the parties to their previous situation or legal relations. Dig. 4, 1; Mackeld. Rom. Law, { 220. The restoration of a cause to its first state, on petition of the party who was cast In order to have a second hearing. Halllfax, Civil Law, b. 3, c. 9, no. 49.