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Definition of Judicial proceeding
1. Noun. A legal proceeding in a court; a judicial contest to determine and enforce legal rights.
Generic synonyms: Legal Proceeding, Proceeding, Proceedings
Specialized synonyms: Custody Battle, Vexatious Litigation
Category relationships: Jurisprudence, Law
Derivative terms: Litigate, Litigate, Litigious
Lexicographical Neighbors of Judicial Proceeding
Literary usage of Judicial proceeding
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook on the Law of Torts by William Benjamin Hale, Edwin Ames Jaggard (1896)
"Malicious prosecution is a wrong to person, estate, or reputation, based upon a
previous judicial proceeding. 178. To sustain an action for malicious ..."
2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1904)
"In perjury the false oath must be "in a matter material to the issue or point in
question, In some judicial proceeding," while a false ..."
3. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1914)
"Arbitration The statutory arbitration provided for and regulated by the Code of
Civil Procedure Is a "judicial proceeding," and hence, in view of section 6, ..."
4. Leading Cases Simplified: A Collection of the Leading Cases in Criminal Law by John Davison Lawson (1892)
"Keenan being afterwards prosecuted for perjury objected on the ground that the
matters he swore to Were not in the course of the judicial proceeding. ..."
5. A Treatise on Equity Jurisprudence: As Administered in the United States of by John Norton Pomeroy (1881)
"1 "An injunction can not be granted, 1, to stay a judicial proceeding pending at
the commencement of the action in which the injunction is demanded, ..."
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