legal proceeding

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(law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked

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Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process. Lionel Trilling

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