Term: intervention: (law) a proceeding that permits a person to enter into a lawsuit already in progress; admission of person not an original party to the suit so that person can protect some right or interest that is allegedly affected by the proceedings
Broader: proceeding: (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked | Unrelated: drug traffic: traffic in illegal drugs
Broader: proceeding: (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked | Unrelated: evisceration: altering something (as a legislative act or a statement) in such a manner as to reduce its value
Broader: proceeding: (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked | Unrelated: arch: a curved shape in the vertical plane that spans an opening
Broader: proceeding: (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked | Unrelated: hypallage: reversal of the syntactic relation of two words (as in `her beauty's face')
Broader: proceeding: (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked | Unrelated: third eye: a sensory structure capable of light reception located on the dorsal side of the diencephalon in various reptiles
Broader: proceeding: (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked | Unrelated: dominus: a clergyman; especially a settled minister or parson
Broader: proceeding: (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked | Unrelated: pillar: a fundamental principle or practice
Broader: proceeding: (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked | Unrelated: hygrocybe acutoconica: a fungus having an acutely conic cap and dry stalks
Broader: proceeding: (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked | Unrelated: new line: the operation that prepares for the next character to be printed or displayed as the first character on the next line
Broader: proceeding: (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked | Unrelated: backspace key: the typewriter key used for back spacing