Citation - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: citationparallel citation
parallel citation A citation reference to the same case printed in two or more different case reporters. Source: FindLaw ...
citation
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citator
citator : a published list of cases, statutes, and other sources of law showing their subsequent history (as of being cited in other cases) and status (as in having been overruled by another case) see also shepardize ...
Citation
Citation, a summons to appear, applied particularly to process in the spiritual, probate, and matrimonial courts, see Tristram v. Coote, (English) Probate Pr. And Probate Rules, 1862 and (non-contentious) 1925; a reference to authorities in support of an argument.A reference to a legal precedent or authority, such as a case, statute or treatise, that either substantiate or contradicts a given position, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn....
Citations, Statute of
Citations, Statute of (23 Hen. 8, c. 9), by which no man can be cited to appear before any spiritual judge out of the diocese in which he dwells, except for a spiritual offence or cause of heresy; and see Canon 94....
Shepardize
Shepardize -ized -iz·ing : to look up (a case citation) in Shepard's Citations esp. in order to check the status of the case, parallel citations, or the use of the case in other jurisdictions NOTE: Shepard's Citations is a citator and electronic service of Shepard's/McGraw-Hill, Inc. ...
Fugitation
Fugitation. In Scotland, when a criminal does not obey the citation to answer, the Court pronounces sentence of fugitation against him, which induces a forfeiture of goods and chattels to the Crown.A sentence or declaration of fugitive status that was pronounced against an accused person for failing to answer a citation and appear, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 680....
cite
cite cit·ed cit·ing [Latin citare to rouse, call on, summon] 1 : to demand the appearance of in court : serve with a citation [had been cited for contempt] [you are hereby cited to show cause in the Probate Court] 2 : to quote or refer to as a precedent or authority [the plaintiff s several cases for the proposition] ...
ex parte
ex parte [Medieval Latin, on behalf (of)] : on behalf of or involving only one party to a legal matter and in the absence of and usually without notice to the other party [an ex parte motion] [relief granted ex parte] used in citations to indicate the party seeking judicial relief in a case [Ex Parte Jones, 7 U.S. 2 (1866)] compare in re, inter partes ...
idem
idem [Latin, same] : something previously mentioned : the same authority used in citations to cases and other works to refer to an immediately preceding reference compare infra, supra NOTE: Idem is usually used in the form of its abbreviation id.[In Bally, the plaintiff also claimed…403 Mass. at 720-21. The [court] denied the claim…Id. at 721 "R. T. Gerwatowski"] ...
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