2. A bill of advocation in Scotland, is a written application to a superior court, to call an action before them from an inferior court. The order of the superior court for this purpose is called a letter of advocation
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2. Advowson.
3. The process of removing a cause from an inferior court to the supreme court.
Advocation
Encyclopedia Britannica
ADVOCATION, in Scottish Law, was a mode of appeal from certain inferior courts to the supreme court. It was abolished in 1868, a simple “appeal” being substituted.
9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 1, p. 179
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Pretext Roget’s Thesaurus §617
N. pretext, pretense, pretension, plea|, allegation, advocation, ostensible motive, ostensible ground, ostensible reason, phony reason, excuse, subterfuge, color, gloss, guise, cover, loop hole, starting hole, how to creep out of, salvo, come off, way of escape, handle, peg to hang on, room locus standi, stalking-horse, cheval de bataille, cue, pretense, put off, dust thrown in the eyes, blind, moonshine, mere pretext, shallow pretext, lame excuse, lame apology, tub to a whale, false plea, sour grapes, makeshift, shift, white lie, special pleading, soft sawder
V. pretend, plead, allege, shelter oneself under the plea of, excuse, lend a color to, furnish a handle, make a pretext of, make a handle of, use as a plea, take one's stand upon, make capital out of, pretend
Adv. ostensibly, under color, under the plea, under the pretense of, under the guise of, 3, objects of volition
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