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Conspectus

A general sketch or outline of a subject a synopsis an epitome...

Epitome

A work in which the contents of a former work are reduced within a smaller space by curtailment and condensation a brief summary an abridgement...

Condense

To make more close compact or dense to compress or concentrate into a smaller compass to consolidate to abridge to epitomize...

Comprisal

The act of comprising or comprehending a compendium or epitome...

Compendium

A brief compilation or composition containing the principal heads or general principles of a larger work or system an abridgment an epitome a compend a condensed summary...

Breviary

An abridgment a compend an epitome a brief account or summary...

Discovery, revealing or disclosing matter. The Courts of Common Law were originally unable to compel a litigant to disclose any fact resting merely within his knowledge, or discover any document in his power, which would aid in the enforcement of a right, the repelling of an unjust demand, or the redress of a wrong; an infirmity which the equity judges cured by compelling such a party to disclose the fact, or discover the document, upon his oath, in his answer to a bill of complaint, filed by the opposite party, called a bill of discovery, which was an original bill.Sir James Wigram, V.C., in his work, entitled Points in the Law of Discovery, epitomized the two cardinal principles on this subject in the two following propositions:(1) It is the right, as a general rule, of a plaintiff in equity to exact from the defendant a discovery upon oath as to all matters of fact, which, being well pleaded in the bill, are material to the plaintiff's case about to come on for trial, and which the ...

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