PROCESS, rights. The means or method of accomplishing a thing.

2. It has been said that the word manufacture, (q. v.) in the patent laws, may, perhaps, extend to a new process, to be carried on by known implements¹, or elements, acting² upon known substances, and ultimately producing some other known substance, but producing it in a cheaper or more expeditious³ manner, or of a better and more useful kind. 2 B. & Ald. 349. See Perpigna, Manuel des Inventeurs, &c., c. 1; s. 5, 1, p. 22, 4th ed.; Manufacture; Method.

PROCESS, MESNE, pradice. By this term is generally understood any writ⁴ issued in the course of a suit between the original process and execution.

2. By this term is also meant the writ or proceedings⁵ in an action to summon or bring the defendant⁶ into court, or compel him to appear or put in bail⁷, and then to hear and answer the plaintiffs claim. 3 Chit. Pr. 140.

PROCESS OF GARMISHMENT, practice. It was formerly⁸ the practice to deposit deeds and other things in the hands of third persons, to await the performance of covenants¹⁰, upon which they were to be re-delivered to one of the parties. When one of the parties contended that he was entitled to such things, and the other denied it, and the claiming party brought an action of detinue for them, the defendant was allowed to in terplead, and thereupon he prayed for a monition or notice to compel the other depositor to appear and become a defendant in his stead. This was called a process of garnishment¹¹. 3 Reeves, Hist. Eng. Law, eh. 23, p. 448.

PROCESS OF INTERPLEADER, practice. Formerly when two parties concurred¹² in a bailment¹³ to a third person of things which were to be delivered to one of them on the performance of a covenant⁹ or other thing, and the parties brought several actions of detinue against the bailee, the latter might plead the facts of the case and pray that the plaintiffs in the several actions might interplead with each other; this was called process of interpleader. 3 Reeves, Hist. Law, eh. 23; Mitford, Eq. Pl. by Jeremy, 141; 2 Story, Eq. Jur. 802.

PROCESSIONING. A term used in Tennessee to signify the manner of ascertaining¹⁴ the boundaries of land, as provided for by the laws of that state. Carr. & Nich. Comp. of Stat. of Tenn. 348. The term is also used in North Carolina. 3 Murph. 504; 3 Dev. 268.