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Process, includes any practice, treatment and mode of manufacture of any article. [Bureau of Indian Standards Act, 1986 (63 of 1986), s. 2(o)]

Is largely taken for all the proceedings in any action or prosecution, real or personal, civil or criminal, from the beginning to the end; strictly, the summons by which one is cited into a Court, because it is the beginning or principal part thereof, by which the rest is directed, Britt. 138.

At Common Law the three superior courts at Westminster, in personal actions, differed greatly, before the Uniformity of Process Act, 1832, in their modes of process, and even the same court admitted a considerable variety of methods, according to the circumstances of the case. The ordinary process in Chancery suits was service of a copy of the bill or claim, with an endorsed citation, which required the defendant to appear on a certain day.

The process now for the commencement of all actions is the same in all the Divisions of the High Court of Justice, and is called a writ of summons. See SUMMONS.

Means any one of the series of treatments to which raw agricultural produce is subjected to make it fit for use or consumption, Karnataka Agricultural Produce Marketing (Regulation) Act, 1966 (27 of 1966) s. 32.

Means issue of summons or issue of warrant, as the case may be. (See Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, s. 204)