Supplemental Bill
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In equity practice
A bill brought as an addition to an original bill to supply some defect in its original frame or structure which cannot be supplied by amendment.
See 1 Paige Ch. (N. Y.) 200; 15 Miss. 456; 22 Barb. (N. Y.) 161; 14 Ala. (N. S.) 147; 18 Ala. (N. S.) 771.
It may be brought by a plaintiff or defendant (2 Atk. 533; 2 Ball & B. 140; 1 Story, C. C. [U. S.] 218), and as well after as before a decree (3 Md. Ch. 306; 1 Macn. & G. 405; Story, Eq. Pl. § 338; Hinde, Chanc. Prac. 43), but must be within a reasonable time (2 Halst. [N. J.] 465).
See Original Bill.