attentat

noun3

1. •
   (no longer used) An attempted assault or assassination of a political figure; a politically motivated attempted assault.

   • Their detestation of Popular Attentates, upon the Person or Authoritie of Princes. — 1622
2. •
   (no longer used) Anything whatsoever, as a ruling, by the judge of a lower court in a matter pending an appeal.

   • All the several acts of one court day constitute, with reference to attentats, but one act, notwithstanding an appeal intermediate between those acts (h). — 1842
3. •
   (no longer used) Any step wrongly innovated or attempted by an inferior judge in a suit.