Legal Specs

Definition 1

Scotch law. A writing drawn up in the
form of a petition,
called a bill of advocation, by which a party in an
action applies to the
supreme court to advocate its cause, and to call the
action out of an
inferior court to itself. Letters of advocation, are the
decree or warrant of
the supreme court or court of sessions, discharging
the inferior tribunal
from all further proceedings in the matter, and
advocating the action to
itself. This proceeding is similar to a certiorari
(q. v.) issuing out of a
superior court for the removal of a cause from an
inferior.