The form or mode of pro-ceeding in courts of justice for the enforce-ment of rights or the redress of wrongs, as distinguished from the substantive law which gives the right or denounces the wrong. The form, manner, or order of instituting and conducting a suit or other Judicial pro-ceeding, through its successive stages to its end, in accordance with the rules and prin-ciples laid down by law or by the regulations and precedents of the courts. The term ap-plies as well to the couduct of criminal actions as to civil suits, to proceedings in equity as well as at law, aud to the defense as well as the prosecution of any proceeding. See Fleischman v. Walker, 91 111. 321; People v. Central Pac. R. Co., 83 Cal. 393, 23 Pac. 603; Kring v. Missouri, 107 U. S. 221, 2 Sup. Ct 443, 27 L. Ed. 506; opp v. Ten Eyck, 99 Ind. 351; Beardsley v. Littell, 14 Blatchf. 102, Fed. Cas. No. 1,185; Union Nat. Bank v. Byram, 131 111. 92, 22 N. E. 842
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
