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noun(law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked
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- bitter proceeding from or exhibiting great hostility or animosity
- impulsive proceeding from natural feeling or impulse without external stimulus
- descendant proceeding by descent from an ancestor
- gradual proceeding in small stages
- papal proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles
- descendent proceeding by descent from an ancestor
- apostolic proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles
- pontifical proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles
- discursive proceeding to a conclusion by reason or argument rather than intuition
- unprompted proceeding from natural feeling or impulse without external stimulus