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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 408 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PROCEDURE (Fr. procedure, from See also:Lat. procedere, to go for-See also:ward) , in See also:general, a method or course of See also:action. In See also:law, procedure may be defined as the mode in which the successive steps in litigation are taken. As a See also:term in See also:English law it See also:dates only from the passing of the See also:Common Law Procedure Acts 1852—1860; it is usually coupled with, or more often replaced by, the word " practice." The procedure of the High See also:Court of See also:Justice in See also:England is governed by the rules of the supreme court, which are published in the See also: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. See also:Holland (Elements of See also:Jurisprudence, 1906, p. 86) describes procedure, or " See also:adjective " law, as that See also:part of law which provides a method of aiding and protecting rights.

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