Prayer

A bill in equity, or a complaint under one of the codes of reformed procedure, must conclude with a specific request for the relief which the plaintiff seeks. This clause is called the prayer of the bill or complaint; the prayer for relief, &c. Prayer of process, is a petition with which a bill in equity used to conclude, to the effect that a wi-it of subpoena might issue against the defendant to compel him to answer upon oath all the matters charged against him in the bill. Prayer for other and further relief. To avoid prejudice from error or deficiency in a prayer for relief, it has been usual for a plaintiff to add to the prayer a clause asking, " or that plaintiff may have such other and further relief as to the court may seem fit," or the like. Under this clause it is considered that the court is not confined, in the decree, to granting precisely the specific relief asked.