Revival
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
The process, of renewing the operative force of a judgment which has remained dormant or unexecuted for se long a time that execution cannot be Issued upon it without new process to reanimate It. See Brier v. Traders' Nat. Bank, 24 Wash. 695, 64 Pac. 831; Havens v. Sea Shore Land Co., 57 N. J. Eq. 142, 41 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.