invocation

plural invocations

1. countableuncountableThe act or form of calling for the assistance or presence of some superior being, especially prayer offered to a divine being.

   Synonyms: conjuration

2. countableuncountablelawA call or summons, especially a judicial call, demand, or order.

   the invocation of papers or evidence into court

   Synonyms: citation, citation, subpoena, summons, writ of summons

3. countableuncountablelawAn act of invoking or claiming a legal right.

   As a matter of legal principle, the State should report whether all the necessary conditions for the invocation of the right of self-defense were existent.

   2008, Jan Kittrich, The Right of Individual Self-Defense in Public International Law, →ISBN

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   McNeil (D) contended that his courtroom appearance with an attorney for the West Allis crime constituted an invocation of his Miranda right to counsel and that his subsequent waiver during police-initiated questioning regarding the Caledonia crime was invalid.

   2007, Criminal Procedure, →ISBN

   This chapter might have been titled “The First 'First Civil Right'”: before Richard Nixon's 1968 invocation of the right to protection from (black) crime, Truman Democrats advocated protection from (white) lawlessness as the first essential right.

   2014, Naomi Murakawa, The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America, →ISBN

4. countableuncountablecomputingThe act of invoking, such as a function call.