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proceeding
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
court proceedings (=the processes that are part of a court case)
▪ The court proceedings were over in a day.
criminal proceedings (=actions to deal with criminals, such as charging people with crimes or bringing them to trial)
▪ Criminal proceedings have been started against the officers connected with the events.
divorce proceedings (=the legal processes of getting a divorce)
▪ His first marriage was unsuccessful and led to long divorce proceedings.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
civil
▪ The Act contains similar requirements to those in civil proceedings.
▪ It was suggested that under the circumstances civil proceedings might have been preferable to a court martial.
▪ Infringements can be dealt with by an out-of-court settlement or if necessary by civil proceedings.
▪ There is no legal requirement for a child's evidence to be corroborated in civil proceedings.
▪ Either criminal or civil proceedings may be brought by the Attorney General.
▪ Under civil proceedings, the appropriate care and cure of the young offender is, in theory at least, the only consideration.
▪ It will include other forms of civil proceedings: for example, an originating summons.
▪ If the defendant states he was wrongly convicted, he puts that fact in issue in the civil proceedings.
criminal
▪ There is no statutory limitation period for criminal proceedings such as those in the instant case.
▪ He would simply not allow it in criminal proceedings.
▪ However it is quite proper to reject a request if the evidence is really being sought with a view to its use in criminal proceedings.
▪ Further investigation of the complaint was deferred until the outcome of the criminal proceedings against the two young men.
▪ However, with certain crimes, an affected member of the public may commence criminal proceedings.
▪ If it's found that they continued to cash cheques after that date, criminal proceedings will follow.
▪ The authorities considered these cases suitable for civil, not criminal, legal proceedings.
▪ Dorset Police said its investigation into the tragedy would look at whether there were any grounds for criminal proceedings.
disciplinary
▪ A candidate who engages in plagiarism shall be subject to disciplinary proceedings. 12.
▪ Robins hired former Attorney General Griffin Bell to institute disciplinary proceedings against the judge.
▪ But it accepted there were flaws in procedures in disciplinary proceedings against Mr Pink.
▪ The teachers then appeared before the school board, asking that they be treated as a group in any disciplinary proceedings.
▪ There was some discussion about the possibility of disciplinary proceedings before the General Council of the Bar.
▪ This need remains as strong after disciplinary proceedings as before, perhaps even stronger.
▪ This would amount to a breach of their contract of employment and lay them open to disciplinary proceedings.
▪ It is equally important that disciplinary proceedings should not become unduly protracted.
judicial
▪ This has recently been the subject of judicial review proceedings.
▪ In 1925 forty-five Chicago judges voted to prohibit cameras in state courtrooms during judicial proceedings.
▪ It had, for example, appeared in previous judicial proceedings.
▪ The adversarial nature of judicial and arbitral proceedings likewise assumes a bilateral model, which is especially clear in boundary determination.
legal
▪ The threat of legal proceedings is not improper pressure.
▪ General Ulysses S.. Grant suggested that legal proceedings be brought against the city for damages suffered by the blacks.
▪ How long that takes is entirely a matter for the legal proceedings in Ireland.It's dependent on them.
▪ Then what role did race play in the legal proceedings involving Simpson?
▪ After lengthy legal proceedings the forged will was declared void in 1989 and the forgers duly punished.
▪ Mr Benquis faces strong political pressure to successfully wrap up both the investigation and any subsequent legal proceedings.
▪ Lloyds Bank say they won't comment because the matter is subject to legal proceedings.
▪ But meanwhile the park has agreed to seek protection orders in consultation with landowners, rather than risking conflict and long legal proceedings.
main
▪ In the view of the applicants in the main proceedings, a residence requirement would not automatically infringe article 52.
▪ The main proceedings will be published as a book.
other
▪ The rationale of the distinction between summary and other proceedings probably lies in the respective limitation periods.
▪ Viewers in this country do get a fair picture of the debates and other proceedings in our House.
▪ On 22 October, corresponding alterations were made for trams and other traffic proceeding towards the Embankment.
▪ We will defend vigorously the libel proceedings commenced us by Virgin and its owner and any other proceedings they choose to commence.
▪ It would extend not only to appeals to the Visitors but also to any other court proceedings reasonably incurred.
parliamentary
▪ If so, does this case fall within the category of cases where reference to Parliamentary proceedings should be permitted? 3.
▪ If reference to Parliamentary proceedings is permissible, what is the true construction of the statutory provisions? 4.
▪ If reference to the Parliamentary proceedings is not permissible, what is the true construction of the statutory provisions? 5.
▪ The case was originally argued before your Lordships without reference to any Parliamentary proceedings.
▪ Thirdly, newspapers report on parliamentary proceedings discussing changes in the law.
▪ The directives had no application to parliamentary proceedings or elections and allowed reported speech.
▪ Publication of false reports of Parliamentary proceedings and premature disclosure of committee proceedings have both constituted contempt.
▪ This approach draws a distinction which is not reflected in the Parliamentary proceedings.
present
▪ Subsequently, he instituted the present friendly proceedings to test the legal position in regard to the rate at which the rent was payable.
▪ But these abuses and reforms have nothing to do with the order made by Buckley J. in the present proceedings.
▪ The first that Tarmac knew that the union disapproved was when the present proceedings were commenced.
▪ It is in relation to that order of the court that the present proceedings arise.
■ NOUN
bankruptcy
▪ No sum is disclosed but bankruptcy proceedings can only be brought if at least £750 is owed.
▪ The prosecution sought to adduce in evidence documents which contained statements made by the defendant in the earlier bankruptcy proceedings.
▪ First, about half of it will be used to pay creditors and to meet legal fees connected with the bankruptcy proceedings.
▪ Alliant Computer Inc, which used the 80860 in high-end parallel systems recently filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings.
care
▪ A parent or guardian can always apply for a s8 order in the course of care proceedings.
▪ A parent may, for example, wish to be represented in care proceedings and apply for a s8 order.
▪ Eventually it became necessary for a place of safety order to be made and for care proceedings to be instituted.
▪ They do apply to applications for interim orders in care proceedings.
▪ A guardian ad litem appointed in emergency protection proceedings will usually continue to act in any care proceedings which follow.
▪ Where there are concurrent criminal proceedings a parent may seek an adjournment of the care proceedings until the criminal process is completed.
▪ A solicitor can represent parents and children at care proceedings, and advise on, eg, contact with children in care.
▪ The woman, who can not be named for legal reasons, wants the circumstances of her children's care proceedings examined.
committal
▪ Arrangements for committal proceedings should be reviewed, and short term imprisonment discouraged as being expensive and of little reformative value.
▪ The magistrates adjourned the hearing until October 8, when committal proceedings are likely to take place.
▪ He was released on conditional bail pending committal proceedings.
▪ Melvyn Kelly, prosecuting, said it was expected that committal proceedings would be able to take place in two weeks.
▪ At the committal proceedings, Mr. Gilbert gave his account.
▪ The case was adjourned until June 22 for committal proceedings and Port, 39, was granted unconditional bail.
court
▪ The Smiths were not happy with the Melody Maker piece and, not surprisingly, more court proceedings began to take place.
▪ Only six of the 352 people in the jury pool were questioned in the initial seven hours of court proceedings.
▪ We hope the court proceedings will be concluded quickly, so that the period of uncertainty is kept to a minimum.
▪ It also reveals the stubbornness of bankers who refused to concede their error even after repeated court proceedings.
Court action Where we are unable to deal with a case by negotiation we will issue court proceedings.
▪ The teenagers, all of whom are incarcerated at Alameda County juvenile hall, will undergo closed juvenile court proceedings.
▪ The inquest was adjourned until completion of court proceedings.
▪ Civil court proceedings are notoriously slow.
divorce
▪ She dropped divorce proceedings hoping the ban would be lifted.
▪ Given the quick nature of the divorce proceedings, it appears most of the hard negotiations are out of the way.
▪ Awife whose solicitors have been negligent in negotiating a financial settlement in her divorce proceedings is entitled to damages against the solicitors.
▪ A wife, who had been married for six years, consulted the defendant firm of solicitors about her divorce proceedings.
▪ It's the only real explanation Tolby had for him starting up the divorce proceedings again.
▪ It meant solicitors, divorce proceedings.
▪ Except in divorce proceedings, commencement by petition is now very rare.
impeachment
▪ The Supreme Court was due to rule whether he must face impeachment proceedings on corruption charges.
▪ House members saw a need to move quickly to avoid having the legislation bottled up by possible impeachment proceedings.
▪ But they failed to reach agreement, and the speaker, Ruslan Khasbulatov, said impeachment proceedings would go forward.
▪ No one in the House has initiated formal impeachment proceedings against Mr Rubin.
▪ Only the three senior judges could initiate impeachment proceedings against the president.
▪ This news sent stock markets rising after serious losses over recent days due to fears that the President could face impeachment proceedings.
▪ The threat of impeachment proceedings -- a grenade flung earlier this month by Rep.
■ VERB
apply
▪ This prohibition applies to all proceedings under s34 including applications to vary or discharge existing orders.
▪ The same principle may be applied in legal proceedings where privilege is claimed.
▪ The rules applying to such proceedings are the Insolvency Rules 1986.
▪ There seems no good reason why the same should not apply before county court proceedings are brought.
▪ The principles in s1 are important as they apply to all legal proceedings under the Act.
▪ This applies whether proceedings were initiated in the High Court or arrived there by way of transfer from the county court.
▪ Appeals to the county court Proceedings commenced in the wrong county court Order 16, r 2 applies.
▪ As to the former, the usual procedural rules apply depending on whether proceedings are commenced in the High Court or county court.
begin
▪ If they refuse, the lawyers say they will begin proceedings in the High Court for damages.
▪ But of those, three awards were never paid and one was paid only after the consumer began court proceedings.
▪ They immediately began proceedings for judicial review to challenge the validity of the Regulations.
▪ The senior Sharifi led evening prayers and, after a meal, they began the proceedings.
▪ Mrs Bond recently began divorce proceedings.
▪ The government even began legal proceedings against the survivors, indicting them for rebellion and damaging public property.
▪ This month, the Inland Revenue moves swiftly to begin proceedings.
▪ The Black Country Development Corporation has begun proceedings to buy the pub but it has made no public statement giving its reasons.
bring
▪ Northern Electric is bringing the proceedings against the company.
▪ Third parties harmed by anti-competitive agreements may bring proceedings for damages.
▪ Thus, I conclude that the requirement to serve a demand is a procedural condition precedent to bringing proceedings.
▪ Assistance is only available to those who are able to bring relevant proceedings to court in their own right.
▪ If she still isn't happy, then she should consider bringing proceedings to the small-claims court.
▪ McGregor brought Cargolux into the proceedings as third party and for indemnity.
▪ He can bring proceedings for a High Court injunction to stop the publication of a misleading advertisement.
▪ The opposition parties have brought proceedings in the Diet to a standstill.
commence
▪ The defendant did not commence proceedings against the appellant until 7 March 1988.
▪ P2 would therefore have until 1993 to commence proceedings under the section.
▪ In this case, it must commence formal proceedings.
▪ However, with certain crimes, an affected member of the public may commence criminal proceedings.
▪ A purchaser would have to locate and commence proceedings against all vendors.
▪ It is normal to commence proceedings in the local County Court - e.g. for the recovery of a debt.
dominate
▪ A majority in either House has the ultimate power to dominate proceedings.
▪ That question has dominated the proceedings in Blackpool this week.
▪ Almost all breeds are here ... although Border collies tend to dominate the proceedings.
▪ But it was Mr Samaranch, 81, a former member of Franco's govern ment, who dominated proceedings.
initiate
▪ The Act allows, for the first time, children to initiate proceedings and instruct a solicitor to make court applications independently.
▪ C., known as Fannie Mae, lenders have to initiate foreclosure proceedings 3 months after the first missed payment.
▪ The courts construed this broadly to include the documents which initiated the proceedings, the pleadings and the adjudication.
▪ No one in the House has initiated formal impeachment proceedings against Mr Rubin.
▪ It initiated liquidation proceedings after the sum it was owed for components it had supplied reached £2.1 million.
▪ Only the three senior judges could initiate impeachment proceedings against the president.
▪ The Act allows children, for the first time, to initiate proceedings and instruct a solicitor to make applications to court.
institute
▪ Subsequently, he instituted the present friendly proceedings to test the legal position in regard to the rate at which the rent was payable.
▪ Robins hired former Attorney General Griffin Bell to institute disciplinary proceedings against the judge.
issue
▪ Because few such cases proceed to trial it was argued that claims assessors should be able to issue proceedings on behalf of their clients.
▪ Without her knowledge, in August 1989 the landlord had issued proceedings, wrongly contending that he was a resident landlord.
▪ Court action Where we are unable to deal with a case by negotiation we will issue court proceedings.
▪ However this position will change if it should become necessary to issue court proceedings.
▪ We then issued a writ and proceedings ensued.
▪ Similarly, in a case of maximum severity, it may be necessary to issue proceedings very quickly.
▪ Attending court to issue proceedings, on interlocutory matters or attending trial.
open
▪ Several news organizations then filed court papers seeking to open the proceedings, leading to the ruling Tuesday.
▪ The toastmaster opens the proceedings and keeps them flowing smoothly.
▪ No excuses or substitutes will be accepted and Mrs Thatcher herself will open and close proceedings.
▪ Within one month of receiving the notification, the Commission has to decide whether to approve the merger or to open proceedings.
▪ Where the Commission opens proceedings, it then has a further four months in which to issue a final decision.
▪ This would amount to a breach of their contract of employment and lay them open to disciplinary proceedings.
▪ If not it seems to me possible that Summerchild could be opening himself to proceedings under the Official Secrets Act.
start
▪ It's the only real explanation Tolby had for him starting up the divorce proceedings again.
▪ In fact, so delighted had they been with Kyle that they had started proceedings to adopt a second child.
▪ He was about to start legal proceedings, and Keith would have been forced to sell out.
▪ Cochrane, starting proceedings on 98, relied on a car.
take
▪ It is at these times that fate may appear to step in and take over the proceedings.
▪ I said I would not take any further proceedings.
▪ Often the process of enforcement or preservation makes it necessary for him to take or defend proceedings.
▪ Firstly, it can be taken from court proceedings.
▪ Was not the question whether Beer's promise not to take proceedings was binding? 6.
▪ Kleomenes came, with a bodyguard, and with his backing Isagoras took proceedings against Kleisthenes.
▪ This subject, which was illustrated by slides, prompted questions and discussion which took proceedings up to the end of the afternoon.
watch
▪ As Urquhart watched the proceedings with considerable satisfaction, the telephone rang.
▪ The man of the moment sat on a ledge near the fireplace, smiling and watching the proceedings with a cool reserve.
▪ The general public and those who watch our proceedings on television must wonder whether we are really fighting.
▪ He watched the daily proceedings on a television monitor installed in his hospital room.
▪ All this time, her mate has been standing by, watching the proceedings.
▪ He was in his office and did not watch the proceedings on television, according to spokesman Lauren Maddox.
▪ In a good position for watching the proceedings were the carriages of three or four noblemen who were entertaining their friends.
▪ The meeting was closed to the public, and journalists watched the proceedings on closed-circuit television.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
legal action/proceedings
▪ But, as Kim Barnes reports, Lexie McConnell's family say it won't stop their legal action for negligence.
▪ He is is now planning legal action to get compensation.
▪ Quiet diplomacy was out; legal action was in.
▪ That's where legal expenses insurance helps - it protects against the cost of taking legal action.
▪ The authorities considered these cases suitable for civil, not criminal, legal proceedings.
▪ The company expected legal action, and it got it.
▪ The Scheme makes no difference to an employee's rights to take legal action, and the Company accepts no liability.
▪ This broadly relates to communications between lawyer and client either in relation to the giving of legal advice or in contemplation of legal proceedings.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Brady directs the proceedings at the board meetings.
▪ divorce proceedings.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Dorset Police said its investigation into the tragedy would look at whether there were any grounds for criminal proceedings.
▪ For hearsay evidence to be admissible in proceedings in the magistrates' court the proceedings have to be family proceedings.
▪ In later proceedings, the validity of this arrest was upheld.
▪ Supervision orders, but not care orders, may also be made in criminal proceedings and are then subject to different legal requirements.
▪ The husband's advisers will also have regard to the advantages of severance whilst matrimonial proceedings are pending.
▪ They do apply to applications for interim orders in care proceedings.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Proceeding

Proceed \Pro*ceed"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Proceeded; p. pr. & vb. n. Proceeding.] [F. proc['e]der. fr. L. procedere, processum, to go before, to proceed; pro forward + cedere to move. See Cede.]

  1. To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to continue or renew motion begun; as, to proceed on a journey.

    If thou proceed in this thy insolence.
    --Shak.

  2. To pass from one point, topic, or stage, to another; as, to proceed with a story or argument.

  3. To issue or come forth as from a source or origin; to come from; as, light proceeds from the sun.

    I proceeded forth and came from God.
    --John viii. 42.

    It proceeds from policy, not love.
    --Shak.

  4. To go on in an orderly or regulated manner; to begin and carry on a series of acts or measures; to act by method; to prosecute a design.

    He that proceeds upon other principles in his inquiry.
    --Locke.

  5. To be transacted; to take place; to occur. [Obs.]

    He will, after his sour fashion, tell you What hath proceeded worthy note to-day.
    --Shak.

  6. To have application or effect; to operate.

    This rule only proceeds and takes place when a person can not of common law condemn another by his sentence.
    --Ayliffe.

  7. (Law) To begin and carry on a legal process.

    Syn: To advance; go on; continue; progress; issue; arise; emanate.

Proceeding

Proceeding \Pro*ceed"ing\, n.

  1. The act of one who proceeds, or who prosecutes a design or transaction; progress or movement from one thing to another; a measure or step taken in a course of business; a transaction; as, an illegal proceeding; a cautious or a violent proceeding.

    The proceedings of the high commission.
    --Macaulay.

  2. pl. (Law) The course of procedure in the prosecution of an action at law.
    --Blackstone.

    Proceedings of a society, the published record of its action, or of things done at its meetings.

    Syn: Procedure; measure; step, See Transaction.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
proceeding

1510s, "action of going forward," verbal noun from proceed (v.). From 1550s as "what is done, conduct." Proceedings "records of the doings of a society" is attested by 1824.

Wiktionary
proceeding

n. 1 The act of one who proceeds, or who prosecutes a design or transaction 2 The collection of academic papers published in the context of an academic conference 3 Progress or movement from one thing to another. vb. (present participle of proceed English)

WordNet
proceeding

n. (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked [syn: legal proceeding, proceedings]

Wikipedia

Usage examples of "proceeding".

May Sir George Grey proposed and carried a resolution which virtually rescinded that of Sir Eardley Wilmot, by declaring that, in the opinion of the house, it was not advisable to adopt any proceeding for the purpose of giving effect to the resolution of the 26th of that month.

I dissent not to condone the intrusion of humankind into this ecosystem, but to protest a proceeding which will attempt on the basis of quantitative anthropocentric standards to determine the relative value of a lifeform against the desire of humankind to possess what this world has held until now unique within the rules established by its own genetic heritage.

LORD to strengthen us by His HOLY SPIRIT for this end, and to bless our desires and proceedings with such success, as may be deliverance and safety to His people, and encouragement to other Christian churches, groaning under, or in danger of, the yoke of antichristian tyranny, to join in the same or like association and covenant, to the glory of GOD, the enlargement of the kingdom of JESUS CHRIST, and the peace and tranquility of Christian kingdoms and commonwealths.

State owes to its citizens, it may exercise its jurisdiction over real and personal property situated within its borders belonging to a nonresident and permit an appropriation of the same in attachment proceedings to satisfy a debt owed by the nonresident to one of its citizens or to settle a claim for damages founded upon a wrong inflicted on the citizen by the nonresident.

Uncle Sam was called to fight for humanity, and only an approximation of the condition can be made, for about two-thirds of the National Guard had been taken into the regular service incident to the trouble with Mexico, when the Guardsmen were summoned to the border to protect the country, and recruiting was proceeding in all branches of the service to bring all the regiments up to a war footing.

On the other hand, judicial proceedings in one State, under which inheritance taxes have been paid and the administration upon the estate has been closed, are denied full faith and credit by the action of a probate court in another State in assuming jurisdiction and assessing inheritance taxes against the beneficiaries of the estate, when under the law of the former State the order of the probate court barring all creditors who had failed to bring in their demand from any further claim against the executors was binding upon all.

The information was taken down, and Louis Chauvet, the civil lieutenant, and the archpriest of SaintMarcel and the Loudenois, were appointed to investigate the matter, so that, while Urbain was instituting proceedings against Duthibaut in Paris, information was laid against himself in Loudun.

Ireland in respect to crime and outrage, more especially when the exercise of that right by the house of lords does not interfere with any previous proceeding or resolution of the house of commons, nor with the progress of any legislative measure assented to by the house of commons, or at present under its consideration.

I gave him particular orders, in my letter, not to attempt anything of that sort, assuring him there were spies about him to watch his proceedings.

Now because the Son is Wisdom begotten, and Truth proceeding from the Father, and His perfect Image, consequently, judiciary power is properly attributed to the Son of God.

Watson did not care enough even to present his case on the appeal, and Ballenger, out of a sense of fairness, had continued the proceedings on his own initiative.

In Australia, as reported in the Proceedings of the 5th Symposium on Wound Ballistics, the researchers took aim at rabbits.

It may also empower courts of bankruptcy to entertain petitions by taxing agencies or instrumentalities for a composition of their indebtedness where the State has consented to the proceeding and the federal court is not authorized to interfere with the fiscal or governmental affairs of the petitioner.

State court was without power to proceed with pending foreclosure proceedings after a farmer-debtor had filed a petition in the federal bankruptcy court for a composition or extension of time to pay his debts.

United States to stay proceedings in State courts except where such injunctions may be authorized by any law relating to bankruptcy proceedings.