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Wakening

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

In Scotch law

The revival of an action. An action is said to sleep when it lies over, not insisted on for a year, in which case it is suspended.

Ersk. Inst. 4. 1. 33.

With us a revival is by scire facias. WALAPAUZ (Lomb.) In old Lombardlc law. The disguising the head or face, with the intent of committing a theft.

LL.

Longobard, tit.

15, cap. ult.