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AID PRAYER Definition & Legal Meaning

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In English practice. A proceeding formerly made use of, by way of petition in court, praying in aid of the tenant for life, etc., from the reversioner or remainder- man, when the title to the inheritance was in question. It was a plea in suspension of the action. 3 Bl. Comm. 300.

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