(A) contracts. An agreement to renew the legal obligation of a just debt, after it has been barred by the act of limitation or lapse of time, is called its revival. Vide Promise. (B) practice. The act by which a judgment, which has lain dormant or without any action upon it for a year and a day is, at common law, again restored to its original force.
Law Dictionary – Alternative Legal Definition
The process of renewing the operative force of a judgment which has remained dormant or unexecuted for so long a time that execution cannot be issued upon it without new process to reanimate it. Sep Brier v. Traders’ Nat. Bank, 24 Wash. 605,’ 64 Pac. 831i Havens v. Sea Shore Land Co. 57 N. J. Eq. 142, 4t Atl. 755. ; The act of renewing the legal force of a contract or obligation, which had ceased to be sufficient foundation for an action, on account of the running of the statute of limitations, by giving a new promise or acknowledgment of it.