Definition of "invocation"

invocation

/ˌɪn.voʊ.ˈkeɪ.ʃən/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural invocations
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.
3. (law) An act of invoking or claiming a legal right.
  Quotations
  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.