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process definition - legal

n

  1. A summons in writing to compel the appearance or response of a person before a court; the proceedings in a civil or a criminal case; the procedure by which a disobedient or recalcitrant defendant is made to plead.
  2. Patent law, the method used to produce a thing or result. 
abuse of process
Improper use of process after it has been issued; the wrong is not in the obtaining of process, but in the manner in which it is used. 

Webster's New World Law Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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