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closing argument

closing argument : the final address to the jury by the attorney for each side of a case in which the attorney usually summarizes the evidence and his or her client's position called also closing statement final argument summation summing-up NOTE: Rule 29.1 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure requires the prosecution to open the closing argument after the closing of the evidence. The defense replies, and the prosecution may offer a rebuttal. ...

Argumentative

Argumentative. A pleading in which the statement on which the pleader relies is implied instead of being expressed, is argumentative. As if B. be sued for converting goods of A., and B. pleads that 'A. never had any goods,' the proper pleading is, that the goods were not the goods of A., and that is to be inferred only from the words used. By R. S.C. Ord. XIX., r. 27, where pleadings prejudice, embarrass, or delay fair trial, they may be struck out or amended, and by R. S. C. Ord. XXXVIII., r. 3, the costs of an affidavit unnecessarily setting forth argumentative matter must be paid by the party filing the same....

argument

argument 1 : a reason or the reasoning given for or against a matter under discussion compare evidence, proof 2 : the act or process of arguing, reasoning, or discussing ;esp : oral argument ...

closing arguments

closing arguments after all the evidence has been presented in a trial, lawyers' presentations summarizing the evidence and attempting to persuade the jury to draw conclusions favorable to their clients. Closing arguments, like opening statements, are not themselves evidence. Source: Federal Judicial Center ...

final argument

final argument : an argument made to the jury or to the judge in a bench trial by both sides of a case after all the evidence has been presented ...

Argument

Argument, in reasoning, Locke observes that men ordinarily use four sorts of arguments. The first is to allege the opinions of men, whose parts and learning, eminency, power, or some other cause, have gained a name, and settled their reputation in the common esteem, with some kind of authority; this may be called argumentum ad verecundiam. The second is to require the adversary to admit what they allege as a proof, or to require a better; this he calls argumentum ad ignorantiam. The third is to press a man with consequences drawn from his own principles, concessions, or actions; this is known by the name of argumentum ad hominem. The fourth the using proofs drawn from any of the foundations of knowledge or probability; this he calls argumentum ad judicium, and he observes that it is the only one of all the four that brings true instruction with it, and advances us in our way to knowledge.Means a statement that attempts to persuade, especially, the remarks of counsel in analysing and po...

Oral argument

Oral argument, is the one chance for you (not for some chance-assigned mere judge) to answer any questions you can stir any member of the court into being bothered about and into bothering with, and the one chance to sew up each such question into a remembered point in favour. In any but freak situations, oral argument is a must, The Common Law Tradition: Deciding Appeals, Karl No. Llewellyn, 240 (1960).Means an advocate's spoken presentation before a court (esp. an appellate court) supporting or opposing the legal relief at issue, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1122....

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