Provisional Remedy
Defined in 4 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
A remedy adopted to meet a particular exigency. The terra is ordinarily applied to process issued at the commencement or during the pendency of a suit to preserve some status until the rights of the parties are adjudicated. Preliminary injunction, attachment,
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
One provided for present need, or for the occasion, that is, one adapted to meet a particular exigency.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A remedy provided for present need or for the immediate occasion; one adapted to meet a particular exigency. Particularly, a temporary process available to a plaintiff in a civil action, which secures him against loss, irreparable injury, dissipation of the property, etc., while the action is pending. Such are the remedies by injunction, appointment of a receiver, attachment, or arrest. The term is chiefly used in the codes of practice. See McCarthy v. McCarthy, 54 How. Prae. (N. Y.) 100; Witter v. Lyon, 34 Wis. 574; Snavely v. Abbott Buggy Co., 36 Kan. 106, 12 Pac. 522.
Defined under Provisional in Black's Law Dictionary.