Discovery
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
BILL OF. In equity pleading. A bill for the diseovery of facts resting in the knowledge of the defendant, or of deeds or writings, or other things in his custody or power; but seeking no relief in consequence of the discovery, though it may pray for a stay of proceedings at law fill the diseovery is made. Story, Eq. Pl. §§ 31], $12, and notes; Mitf. Eq. Pl. 53.