practice

practice
Repeated or customary action; habitual performance; a succession of acts of similar kind; custom; usage. Application of science to the wants of men. The exercise of any profession. The form or mode or proceeding in courts of justice for the enforcement of rights or the redress of wrongs, as distinguished from the substantive law which gives the right or denounces the wrong. The form, manner, or order of instituting and conducting an action or other judicial proceeding, through its successive stages to its end, in accordance with the rules and principles laid down by law or by the regulations and precedents of the courts. The term applies as well to the conduct of criminal as to civil actions, to proceedings in equity as well as at law, and to the defense as well as the prosecution of any proceeding. Wells Lamont Corp. v. Bowles, Em.App., 149 F.2d 364, 366
@ practice of law
The rendition of services requiring the knowledge and the application of legal principles and technique to serve the interests of another with his consent. R.J. Edwards, Inc. v. R.L. Hert, Okl., 504 P.2d 407, 416.
It is not limited to appearing in court, or advising and performing of services in the conduct of the various shapes of litigation, but embraces the preparation of pleadings, and other papers incident to actions and special proceedings, and in larger sense includes legal advice and counsel and preparation of legal instruments by which legal rights and obligations are established. Washington State Bar Ass'n v. Great Western Union Federal Sav. and Loan Ass'n, 91 Wash.2d 48, 586 P.2d 870.
A person engages in the "practice of law" by maintaining an office where he is held out to be an attorney, using a letterhead describing himself as an attorney, counseling clients in legal matters, negotiating with opposing counsel about pending litigation, and fixing and collecting fees for services rendered by his associate. State v. Schumacher, 214 Kan. 1, 519 P.2d 1116, 1127
@ practice of medicine
The treatment of injuries as well as the discovery of the cause and nature of disease, and the administration of remedies, or the prescribing of treatment therefor
@ practice acts
Statutes that govern practice and procedure in courts (e.g., Title 28, United States Code). Such acts are frequently supplemented with court rules (e.g., Fed.Rules of Civil Procedure)
@ practice court
In English law, a court attached to the court of king's bench, which heard and determined common matters of business and ordinary motions for writs of mandamus, prohibition, etc. It was usually called the "bail court." It was held by one of the puisne justices of the king's bench.
See also moot court
@ practices
A succession of acts of a similar kind or in a like employment
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