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Procedendo, a writ which issued out of the Common Law jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery, when judges of any subordinate Court delayed the parties, for that they would not give judgment either on the one side or on the other, when they ought so to do. In such a case, a writ of procedendo ad judicium was awarded, commanding the inferior Court in the King's name to proceed to judgment, but without specifying any particular judgment; for that, if erroneous, might be set aside by proceedings in error, or by writ of false judgment; and upon further neglect or refusal, the judges of the inferior Court might be punished for their contempt by writ of attachment, returnable in the courts at Westminster, 3 Bl. Com. 109. It also lay where an action had been removed from an inferior to a superior Court by habeas corpus, certiorari, or any like writ, and it appeared to the superior Court that it was removed on insufficient grounds. A suit once so remanded could not afterwards be removed before judgment in any Court whatever, 21 Jac. 1, c. 23. Procedendo still lies, though disused.