Test action
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
An action selected out of a considerable number of suits, concurrently depending in the same court, brought by several plaintiffs against the same defendant, or by one plaintiff against different defendants, all similar in their circumstances, and embracing the same questions, and to be supported by the same evidence, the selected action to go first to trial, (under an older of court equivalent to consolidation,) and its decision to serve as a itest of the right of recovery in the others, all parties agreeing to be bound by the result of the test action.