- citatio ad reassumendam causam
- /sayteysh(iy)ow aed riyaesyuwmendam kozam/ A summons to take up the cause. A process, in the civil law, which issued when one of the parties to a suit died before its determination for the plaintiff against the defendant's heir, or for the plaintiffs heir against the defendant, as the case might be; analogous to a bill of revivor, which is probably borrowed from this proceeding
Black's law dictionary. HENRY CAMPBELL BLACK, M. A.. 1990.