1. A general term for an action, danse, suit, or controversy, at law or in equity; a question contested before a court of Justice; an aggregate of facts which fur-nlshes occasion for the exercise of the juris-dlction of a court of Justice. Smith v. wa-terbury. 54 Conn. 174, 7 Atl. 17; Kundolf v. Thalheimer, 12 N. Y. 596; Gebhard v. Sat-tler, 40 Iowa, 156
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
