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rules of procedure

Defined in 2 dictionaries — Case Law, Black's (1910)

Definitions from Case Law

From 312 U.S. 584 - United States v. Sherwood · 1941Most cited · 6,660 citing opinions

An authority conferred upon a court to make rules of procedure for the exercise of its jurisdiction is not an authority to enlarge that jurisdiction.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Rules made by a legislative body concerning the mode and manner of conducting its business, and for the purpose of making an orderly and proper disposition of the matters bsfore it, such as ruies prescribing what committees shall be appointed, on what subjects they shall act, what shall be the daily order in which business shall be taken up, and in what order certain motions sbali be received and acted on. Hei-skell v. Baltimore, 65 Md. 125, 4 Atl. il6, 57 Am. Rep. 308; Heyker v. McLaughlin. 106 Ky. 509, 50 S. W. 859.

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