In old English law. Sult; at-lendance at court; the plaintiff's suit or fol-lowing, i. e., the witnesses whom he was re-quired, in tHe ancient practice, to bring with him and produce in court, for the purpose of confirming his claim, before the defend-ant was put to the necessity of answering the declaration. See 3 Bl. Comm. 295, 344; Bract, fol. 214a. A survival from thls proceedlng is seen in the formula still used at the end of declarations, “and therefore he brings hls suit," (et inde producit sectam
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
