attentat

Definition

Anything whatsoever, as a ruling, by the judge of a lower court in a matter pending an appeal.

Etymology

From either French attentat or German Attentat.

Example Sentences

• "All the several acts of one court day constitute, with reference to attentats, but one act, notwithstanding an appeal intermediate between those acts (h)."
• "An attentat, in the language of the civil and canon laws, is anything, whatsoever, wrongfully innovated or attempted in the suit by the judge à quo, pending an appeal.[…]In Chichester v. Donegal (3) it was intimated by Sir John Nicholl that “The regular course for procuring the revocation of attentats was by a separate proceeding, civil or criminal, as against a judge à quo, and that it was not by charging the supposed attentats, accumulatively, in a mere ordinary libel of appeal.”"
• "Their detestation of Popular Attentates, upon the Person or Authoritie of Princes."