Wakening
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
In Scotch law
The revival of an action. A process by which an action that has lain over and not been Insisted in for a year and a day, and thus technically said to have "fallen asleep," is wakened or put in motion again.
1 Forb. Inst pt. 4, p. 170; Ersk. Prin. 4, 1, 33.