AID PRAYER

In English practice. A proceeding formerly made use of, by way of petition in court, praying in aid of the ten- ant for life, etc., from the reversioner or re- mainder-man, when the title to the inherit-. ance was in question. It was a plea in sus- pension of the action. 3 Bl. Comm. 300.

In English Law. A petition to the court calling in help from another person who has an interest in the matter in dispute. For example, a tenant for life, by the curtesy, or for years, being impleaded, may pray aid of him in rever- sion; that is, desire the court that he may be called by writ, to allege what he thinks proper for the maintenance of the right of the person calling him, and of his own. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 50; Cowel.