Motion
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In practice
An occasional application to a court by the parties or their counsel, in order to obtain some rule or order, which becomes necessary either in the progress of a cause, or summarily and wholly unconnected with plenary proceedings. A motion is a written application for an order addressed to the court or to a judge in vacation by any party to a suit or proceeding, or by any one interested therein.
Rey. Code Iowa 1880, § 2911; Code N. Y. § 401.
In parliamentary law. The formal node in which a member submits a proposed measure or resolve for the consideration and action vf the meeting.