A second or subsequent hearing of a case or an appeal, usually held to consider an error or omission in the first hearing... ( Black's Law Dictionary. 7th edition. Bryan A. Garner, editor-in-chief. St. Paul, Minn.: West Group; 1999.)
A second hearing by a court. Its purpose is to call the court's attention to an error or omission which may have occurred in the court's first consideration of the claim.