aid-prayer

aid-prayer
A prayer or demand that other parties shall be joined in the action and help defend his title, which a defendant tenant may make in a real action as a preliminary step before putting in his plea. He may thus call for assistance because of the feebleness of his own estate. For example, a tenant for life may pray in aid, that is, call for assistance, on the remainderman or reversioner and an incumbent parson may thus call on the patron and the ordinary. See 3 Bl Comm 300.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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