(law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked | any entity that produces an effect or is responsible for events or results |
a written account of what transpired at a meeting | a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy |
| a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end |
| a justification for something existing or happening |
| events that provide the generative force that is the origin of something |