Action

Judicial proceeding for the enforcement of a private right, redre of a private wrong, or punishment of a public offense. Actions which must be brought within a particular jurisdiction, such as those for injuries to real estate, are called local; others are transitory. The tendency of modern legislation is to abolish the various forms of action recognized by the common law, as well as the distinction between actions at law and suits in equity, and to establish but a single form of action for all legal proceedings. Action and Reaction. Newton used the word action as synonymous with force or pre ure. When a body is in equilibrium, under applied and resisting forces, the applied forces in any direction constitute the action, which is equal and opposite to the resisting forces in the opposite direction, or the reaction.