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voir dire

voir dire [Anglo-French, to speak the truth] : a formal examination esp.

Direful

Dire dreadful terrible calamitous woeful as a direful fiend a direful

Dire

Ill boding portentous as dire omens

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Voir dire

Voir dire [veritatem dicere, Lat., 'to tell the truth,' voir being the

Reasonable

desire or wish on one hand and a compelling or dire or absolute necessity at the other--Such need maybe a present

Cross-examination

as in the case of an examination on the voir dire, which is in the nature of a cross-examination (see VOIR

Direly

In a dire manner

Direness

Terribleness horror woefulness

Initialia testimonii

Bell's Law Dict. It is somewhat similar to our voir dire

Question of fact

the competence of a witness to be sworn. See VOIR DIRE; WITNESS; OATH. The law of a foreign country is a

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