Legal Proceedings

Legal proceedings may refer to:

  • Legal process
    • Trial (law):
      • Lawsuit, a civil trial
      • Criminal trial
  • Hearing (law)
    • Administrative hearing
    • Congressional hearing
  • Impeachment proceedings
  • Court orders
    • Foreclosure
    • Receivership
  • Arbitration

Famous quotes containing the words legal and/or proceedings:

    “It has come to this, that the friends of liberty, the friends of the slave, have shuddered when they have understood that his fate was left to the legal tribunals of the country to be decided. Free men have no faith that justice will be awarded in such a case.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “From his proceedings in Congress, he appears demented, and his actings and doings inspire my pity more than anger.”
    —Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)