Trial
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
That part of an action which and ends at the judgment. Anciently, which began with the medial or proof the final judgment; as trial by battel, used to mean that part of the action Trial at bar, nisi prius, by battel, ipection: see those titles.