letters of request
letters of request
orletters rogatory
orlittera rogatoria
documents sent from a court in one jurisdiction to a court in another asking for some form of judicial assistance such as the obtaining of evidence.LETTERS OF REQUEST, Eng. eccl. law, An instrument by which a judge of an
inferior court waives or remits his own jurisdiction in favor of a court of
appeal immediately superior to it.
2. Letters of request, in general, lie only where an appeal would lie,
and lie only to the next immediate court of appeal, waiving merely the
primary jurisdiction to the proper appellate court, except letters of
request from the most inferior ecclesiastical court, which may be direct to
the court of arches, although one or two courts of appeal may, by this, be
ousted of their jurisdiction as courts of appeal. 2 Addams, R. 406. The
effect of letters of request is to give jurisdiction to the appellate court
in the first instance. Id. See a form of letters of request in 2 Chit. Pr.
498, note.