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procedendo

procedendo noun: a prerogative writ that sends a case from an appellate court to a lower court with an order to proceed to judgment.

Noun

procedendo (plural procedendos)

  1. A prerogative writ that sends a case from an appellate court to a lower court with an order to proceed to judgment.
  2. A writ by which the commission of the Justice of the Peace is revived, after having been suspended.
    • But Ingersoll, on behalf of the defendant, now moved for a Procedendo; alledging that in a case of Pigot v. Young, it had been decided, that a cause could not be removed after the arbitrators, or referces, had entered[…]1798, Alexander James Dallas, Reports of Cases Ruled and Adjudged in the Several Courts of the United States […]

Forms of procedendo

pluralprocedendos

Origin of procedendo

Borrowed from Latin procedendo.

Questions about procedendo

What does procedendo mean?
Procedendo means a prerogative writ that sends a case from an appellate court to a lower court with an order to proceed to judgment.
What part of speech is procedendo?
Procedendo is a noun.
What is the plural of procedendo?
The plural of procedendo is procedendos.

Words near procedendo in the dictionary

  1. procced
  2. proccessivity
  3. proccing
  4. procede
  5. proceded
  6. procedendo
  7. procedendos
  8. procedes
  9. procedeth
  10. proceding
  11. procedings

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