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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....
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....
Open space
Open space, means it is only with reference to the country that the word 'open' carries the meaning 'free from wood building etc.' Accepting the several meanings of the word 'open' the existence of 7 or 8 scattered trees within the space sixty feet wide all round would not render the entire space any less an open space within the meaning of that expression in the proviso to rule 18(a) of the Madras Places of Public Resort Act II of 1888. It is equally clear that the existence of say one free at one corner of the space would not prevent the space being an open space, Nachimuthu v. Ramaswami Chettiar, 69 MLW 887: (1956) 2 MLJ 556 (DB).By the (English) Metropolitan Open Spaces Acts of 1877 and 1881, the (English) Metropolitan Board of Works (succeeded by the London County Council, under s. 40, sub-s. 8, of the (English) Local Government Act, 1888) had power to acquire and to hold of the use of the public any open spaces within the metropolis. These Acts were extended, with amendments, to ...
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 ...
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 ...
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