invocation

Noun

1. The act or form of calling for the assistance or presence of some superior being, especially prayer offered to a divine being.
2. A call or summons, especially a judicial call, demand, or order.
   • the invocation of papers or evidence into court

   Synonyms: citation invocation subpoena summons writ of summons

3. An act of invoking or claiming a legal right.
   • McNeil (D) contended that his courtroom appearance with an attorney for the West Allis crime constituted an invocation of his Miranda right to counsel and that his subsequent waiver during police-initiated questioning...
   • As a matter of legal principle, the State should report whether all the necessary conditions for the invocation of the right of self-defense were existent. - 2008, Jan Kittrich, The Right of Individual Self-Defense in...
   • This chapter might have been titled “The First 'First Civil Right'”: before Richard Nixon's 1968 invocation of the right to protection from (black) crime, Truman Democrats advocated protection from (white) lawlessness...
4. The act of invoking, such as a function call.