invocation

Etymology

From Middle English invocacioun, from Old French invocacion, from Latin invocatio, invocationem.

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. (chiefly law) A call or summons, especially a judicial call, demand, or order.
   the invocation of papers or evidence into court
3. (law) 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 regarding the Caledonia crime was invalid. 2007, Criminal Procedure
   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 Public International Law
   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 as the first essential right. 2014, Naomi Murakawa, The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America
4. (programming) The act of invoking, such as a function call.