AID PRAYER, English law. A petition to the court calling in help
from another person who has an interest in the matter in dispute. For
example, a tenant for life, by the courtesy or for years, being
impleaded, may pray aid of him in reversion; that is, desire the court
that he may be called by writ, to allege what he thinks proper for the
maintenance of the right of the person calling him, and of his own. F.
N. B. 60; Cowel.
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