ACTION

Conduct; behavior; something done; the condition of acting; an act or series of acts. In practice. The legal and formal demand of one's right from another person G or party made and insisted on in a court of justice. Valentine v. Boston, 20 Pick. (Ma .) 201; Hibernia Nat. Bank v. Lacombe, 84 N. Y. 376; Appeal of McBride, 72 Pa. 480; Wilt v. Stickney, 30 Fed. Oas. 256; White H v. Rio Grande Western R. Co., 25 Utah, 346, 71 Pac. 593; Bridgton v. Bennett, 23 Me. 420; Harger v. Thomas, 44 Pa. 128, 84 Am. Dec. 422; Peeler v. Norris, 4 Yerg. (Tenn.) 339. An action is an ordinary proceeding in a I court of justice by which one party prosecutes another for the enforcement or protec- • tion of a right, the redre or prevention of a wrong, or the punishment of a public of• fense. Code Civ. Proc. Cal. § 22; Code N. l'.'. § 2; Code N. C. 1883, § 126; Rev. Code J N. D. 1899, § 5156; Code Civ. Proc. 'S. D. 1903, § 12; Mi ionary Soc. v. Ely, 56 Ohio St. ·!l05, 47 N. E. 537; Iri re Welch, l 08 Wis. 387, 84 N. W. 550; Smith v. Wester field, 88 Cal. 374, 26 Pac. 2(1i; Losey v. Stanley, 83 K Hun, 420, 31 N. Y. Supp. 960; Lawrence v. Thomas, 84 Iowa, 362, 5J. N. W. 11. An action is merely the judicial means of enforcing a right. Code Ga. 1882, § 3151. Action is the form of a suit given by law for the recovery of that which is one's due; L the lawful demand of one's right. Co. Litt. 284b, 285a. An action is a legal proceeding by a party complainant against a party defendant to obtain the judgment of the court in relation to some right claimed to be secured, or c,ome, M [s. 31]