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Definition of Legal proceeding
1. Noun. (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked.
Specialized synonyms: Foreclosure, Intervention, Procedure, Action, Action At Law, Legal Action, Case, Causa, Cause, Lawsuit, Suit, Adoption, Appeal, Bankruptcy, Receivership, Judicial Proceeding, Litigation, Naturalisation, Naturalization, Trial, Review, Hearing
Generic synonyms: Due Process, Due Process Of Law
Category relationships: Jurisprudence, Law
Derivative terms: Proceed, Proceed
Lexicographical Neighbors of Legal Proceeding
Literary usage of Legal proceeding
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence as Administered in England and Ireland by John Pitt Taylor (1887)
"The fact of any such bank having duly made a return to the Commissioners of Inland
Revenue, may be proved in any legal proceeding, by production of a copy ..."
2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
""It follows that any legal proceeding enforced by public authority, whether
sanctioned by age and custom, or newly devised in the discretion of the ..."
3. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
"... entire proceeding, considered as a whole, is a legal proceeding. In re
Emslie (US) 98 Fed. 716, 720. The phrase "legal proceeding," as used in Bankr. ..."
4. A Treatise on the Law and Proceedings in Bankruptcy by Frank Olds Loveland (1899)
"Third: Preferences created by legal proceeding. An act of bankruptcy by a person
may consist of his having suffered or permitted, while insolvent, ..."
5. Prideaux's Precedents in Conveyancing: With Dissertations on Its Law and by Frederick Prideaux, John Whitcombe (1889)
"It has been held that this section applies to a foreclosure suit or any other
legal proceeding taken by the mortgagee against the land or the proceeds of ..."
6. The Judicial Dictionary, of Words and Phrases Judicially Interpreted, to by Frederick Stroud (1903)
"11, "'legal proceeding,' means, any Civil or Criminal proceeding or enquiry in
which evidence is, or may be, given; and includes, an Arbitration. ..."
7. The Law of Landlord and Tenant by Herbert Thorndike Tiffany (1910)
"Enforcement of lien—(1) Necessity of legal proceeding. The statutes ordinarily
name methods of proceeding for the enforcement of the landlord's lien for ..."
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