Assignment Of Errors
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In practice
The statement of the case of the plaintiff in error on a writ of error setting forth the errors complained of. It corresponds with the declaration in an ordinary action.
2 Tidd, Prac. 1168; 3 Steph. Comm. 644.
In those etates in which the remedy by appeal is extended to actions at law and criminal prosecutions, the assignment of errors is a schedule of the errors complained of, filed by appellant, and usually prefixed to his brief.