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Process

Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law · Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881

Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law

1.

The procedure or method of getting a defendant into court, the summons, writs, and attachments for that purpose: original process.

2.

Mesne process was formerly process not depending on the original writ, but on interlocutory or collateral matter; but now is commonly used to mean all process before judgment and final process [process of execution]; particularly, the ca. resp. Prochein amy,/?-.

Next friend

Procheyn heire: next heir. Frochein avoidance: v. Presentation.