In Engllsh practice. A proceedlng formerly made use of, by way of petitlon In court, praying in ald of the ten-ant for Ufe, etc., from the reversioner or re-malnder-man, when the title to the lnherit-ance was in question. It was a plea in sus-penslon of the action. 3 Bl. Comm. 300
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
