procedendo

/prowsadendow/ Action wherein court of superior jurisdiction orders court of inferior jurisdiction to proceed to judgment, but has no bearing on nature of judgment to be entered. State ex rel. Jacobs v. Municipal Court of Franklin County, 26 Ohio App.2d 113, 269 N.E.2d 629, 631, 55 O.O.2d 245.

A writ by which a cause which has been removed from an inferior to a superior court by certiorari or otherwise is sent down again to the same court, to be proceeded in there, where it appears to the superior court that it was removed on insufficient grounds.

More commonly, a case returned to a lower court is said to be remanded to such court. A writ (procedendo ad judicium) which issued out of the common-law jurisdiction of the court of chancery, when judges of any subordinate court delayed the parties for that they would not give judgment either on the one side or on the other, when they ought so to do. In such a case, a writ of procedendo ad judicium was awarded, commanding the inferior court in the s vereign's name to proceed to give judgment, but without specifying any particular judgment. It was the eai liest remedy for the refusal or neglect of justice on the pait of the courts. In re Press Printers & Publishers, C.C.A. N.J., 12 F.2d 660, 664.

A writ by which the commission of a justice of the peace is revived, after having been suspended. 1 Bl. Comm. 353