Sue Out
Defined in 3 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
In practice. To obtain judicially; to issue. Applied only to process; particularly such as is granted specially. To sue out a writ is to obtain and issue it; to issue it on leave obtained for the purpose.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
To obtain by application; to petition for and take out. Properly the term is applied only to the obtaining and issuing of such process as is only accorded upon an application first made; but conventionally it is also used of the taking out of process which issues of course. The term is occasionally used of instruments other than writs. Thus, we speak of "suing out" a pardon. See South Missouri Lumber Co. v. Wright, 114 Mo. 326, 21 S. W. 811; Kelley v. Vincent, 8 Ohio St. 420; U. S. v. American Lumber Co.., 85 Fed. 830, 29 a C. A. 431.
Defined under Sue in Black's Law Dictionary.