ADVOCATION - Scotch law. A writing
drawn up in the form of a petition, called a bill
of advocation, by which a party in an action applies
to the supreme court to advocate its cause, and to
call the action out of an inferior court to itself.
Letters of advocation, are the decree or warrant of
the supreme court or court of sessions, discharging
the inferior tribunal from all further proceedings
in the matter, and advocating the action to itself.
This proceeding is similar to a certiorari issuing
out of a superior court for the removal of a cause
from an inferior.
