An action for staying procedure on a decree of an inferior Court, or a decree of the Court of Session made in absence of the defendant. The decree itself comes to be reviewed in this form. It is commenced by the presenting of a note of suspension, or petition, in the Bill Chamber. The party who is plaintiff in this action is called the suspender. The defendant is called the charger, being the party whose charge is sought to be suspended or stayed.

Source: Kinnear, Digest of House of Lords cases (1865), pg. 363.