Reduction
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In Scotch law
An action brought for the purpose of rescinding, annulling, or cancelling some deed, bond, contract, or other instrument in writing.
1 Forbes, Inst. pt. 4. pp. 158, 159.
See Bell, Diet.