In Scotch law. The revival of an actiou. A process by which an action that has lain over and not been in-sisted in for a year and a day, and thus tech-nlcally said to have “fallen asleep," is wak-ened, or put in motion again. 1 Forb. Inst, pt. 4, p. 170; Ersk. Prin. 4, 1, 33
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)