legal proceeding

Noun legal proceeding has 1 sense

• legal proceeding(n = noun.act) proceeding, proceedings - (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked;
has particulars: foreclosure, intervention, procedure, action, action at law, legal action, case, causa, cause, lawsuit, suit, adoption, appeal, bankruptcy, receivership, judicial proceeding, litigation, naturalisation, naturalization, trial, review, hearing
is a kind of due process, due process of law