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Bill

Defined in 1 dictionary — Bouvier (1839)

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States

John Bouvier · 1839

SUPPLEMENTAL, chancery practice. A supplemental bill is occasioned by some defect in a suit already instituted, whereby the parties cannot obtain complete justice, to which otherwise the case by their bill would have entitled them. It is used for the purpose of supplying some irregularity disconal bill, or some of the proceedings thereupon; or some defect in a suit, arising from events happening since the points in the original were at issue, and which gives an mterest to persons not parties to the suit. Blake’s Ch. Pr. 50. See 3 Johns. Ch. R. 423.;