noun
1. Scholasticism : a form belonging to a species
2. : the form of probate of a will where the will is not contested and is proved by the executor's own oath
3. : one of the forms of pleading used in the common-law actions (as assumpsit, convenant, debt, detinue, replevin, trepass on the case, and trover) in which the allegations were fixed in their general nature