procedendo

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noun

A prerogative writ that sends a case from an appellate court to a lower court with an order to proceed to judgment.

OriginLatin procedendo →
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Meanings

nounprocedendo (plural procedendos)

plural procedendos

  1. lawA prerogative writ that sends a case from an appellate court to a lower court with an order to proceed to judgment.
  2. lawA writ by which the commission of the Justice of the Peace is revived, after having been suspended.

    But Ingersoll, on behalf of the defendant, now moved for a Procedendo; alledging that in a case of Pigot v. Young, it had been decided, that a cause could not be removed after the arbitrators, or referces, had entered[…]

    1798, Alexander James Dallas, Reports of Cases Ruled and Adjudged in the Several Courts of the United States […]

Origin

  1. Latinprocedendo
  2. Latinprocedendo
  3. Englishprocedendo

Borrowed from Latin procedendo.

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APA

procedendo. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/procedendo

MLA

“procedendo.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/procedendo. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “procedendo,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/procedendo.

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