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opening argument Outline or summary of the nature of a case and of anticipated proof presented by attorney to jury at start of trial, before any evidence is submitted. Source: FindLaw ...
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. ...
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 ...
opening statements
opening statements before the evidence is presented in a trial, lawyers' presentations to the jury summarizing what they intend to present as evidence. Opening statements, like closing arguments, are not themselves evidence. Source: Federal Judicial Center ...
opening statement
opening statement : a statement to the jury by trial counsel before the presentation of evidence that usually explains the nature of the case, the factual matters to be proven, and the evidence to be presented and that summarizes the arguments to be made ;also : a similar statement made to the presiding authority (as an arbitrator) at a nonjudicial or quasi-judicial hearing (as an arbitration hearing) ...
Opening statement
Opening statement, means at the outset of a trial, an advocate's statement giving the fact-finder a preview of the case and of the evidence to be presented, but not containing argument, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1118....
Judgment
Judgment [fr. judgment, Fr.], judicial determination; decision of a Court.Under the former practice of the superior Courts, this term was usually applied only to the Common Law Courts, the term 'decree' being in general use in the Court of Chancery. The expression 'Judg-ment,' however, is now used generally except in matrimonial causes, the term 'judgment' including 'decree' [(English) Jud. Act, 1925, s. 225, replacing Jud. Act,1873, s. 100].The several species of judgments are either:-(a) Interlocutory, given in the course of a cause, upon some plea, proceeding, or default, which is only intermediate, and does not finally determine or complete the action. See INQUIRY; SUMMONSES; and ORDERS; and the various titles of the subjects of such judgments as MANDAMUS; INJUNC-TION, etc.(b) Final, putting an end to the action by an award of redress to one party, or discharge of the other, as the case may be.By the (English) C.L.P. Act,1852, s. 120, a plaintiff or defendant having obtained a verd...
Hearing
Hearing, an investigation of a controversy. See TRIAL.A judicial session, usu. open to the public, held for purpose of deciding issues of fact or of law, sometimes with witnesses testifying, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 725.Traditionally, testimony that is given by a witness who relates not what he or she knows personals but what others have said, and that is therefore dependent on the credibility of some one other than witness, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 725.Word hearing can admit of a very wide and liberal interpretation. It may include recording of evidence, consideration of arguments on some aspect of suit, examination of various questions relating to suit and so on. The essential perquisite is whether the Judge is applying his mind to some aspect of the case. If he is conducting some routine work or passing interlocutory orders, he can't be said to be 'hearing the suit', Sham Lal v. Rajinder Kumar Modi, AIR 1993 J&K 50. In a suit, 'hearing' can be conducted at va...
Support
Support, to support a rule or order is to argue in answer to the arguments of the party who has shown cause against a rule or order nisi.The help which every landowner receives at the boundary of his land from his neighbour's land, which lies close to his and prevents its falling in and crumbling away, as it would do if his neighbour dug away the surface of his land to the very edge, Goddard on Easements. The right of an owner to the support of surface in its natural position is a presumption of Common Law and not part of a grant of mines or power to work the same, and a power to let down the surface must be expressly granted in a lease, Warwickshire Coal Company v. Coventry Corporation, 1934 Ch 488. As to the right of support for buildings, see, further, the leading case of Dalton v. Angus, (1881) 6 App Cas 740, in which it was held by the House of Lords that there is natural right to lateral support for buildings. This is an easement which may be acquired by twenty years' uninterrupt...
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