PROCEDURE (Fr. procedure, from

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• LAT

Lat. procedere, to go for-

See also:

• WARD
• WARD, ADOLPHUS WILLIAM (1837- )
• WARD, ARTEMUS
• WARD, EDWARD MATTHEW (1816-1879)
• WARD, ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS (1844-1911)
• WARD, JAMES (1769--1859)
• WARD, JAMES (1843– )
• WARD, JOHN QUINCY ADAMS (1830-1910)
• WARD, LESTER FRANK (1841– )
• WARD, MARY AUGUSTA [MRS HUMPHRY WARD]
• WARD, WILLIAM (1766-1826)
• WARD, WILLIAM GEORGE (1812-1882)

ward)  , in general, a method or course of action . In law, procedure may be defined as the mode in which the successive steps in litigation are taken . As a term in English law it dates only from the passing of the Common Law Procedure Acts 1852—1860; it is usually coupled with, or more often replaced by, the word " practice." The procedure of the High Court of Justice in England is governed by the rules of the supreme court, which are published in the Annual Practice . Procedure has been defined (per Lush, L.J., Poyser v . Minors, L . R . 7 Q.B.D . 329), as " the mode of proceeding by which a legal right is enforced as distinguished from the law which gives or defines the right, and which by means of the proceeding the court is to administer; the machinery as distinguished from the product." T . E . Holland (Elements of Jurisprudence, 1906, p . 86) describes procedure, or " adjective " law, as that part of law which provides a method of aiding and protecting rights .