The published record of the meetings of a society or other formal organization, usually but not necessarily including abstracts or reports of the papers presented When the actual text of papers presented is included, the results are more appropriately termed "transactions "
(of a House of Parliament) the formal actions and decisions of a house of Parliament
Generally, the process of conducting judicial business before a court or other judicial officer A proceeding refers to any one of the separate steps in that process: e g , a motion