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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.