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Definition of Redirect examination

1. Noun. (law) questioning of a witness by the party that called the witness after that witness has been subject to cross-examination.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Redirect Examination

Literary usage of Redirect examination

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report of the Joint Select Committee Appointed to Inquire Into the Condition by Luke Potter Poland, John Scott (1872)
"redirect examination: Answer. I did, sir. He told them that they hadn't given him any arms, and he didn't know how to give his arms to them. Question. ..."

2. A Brief for the Trial of Civil Issues Before a Jury by Austin Abbott (1900)
"An expert may be asked on redirect examination for the reasons of an opinion ... So, a witness may testify on redirect examination as to his reasons for his ..."

3. A Brief for the Trial of Civil Issues Before a Jury by Austin Abbott, William Charles Wermuth (1922)
"An expert may be asked on redirect examination for the reasons of an opinion ... So, a witness may testify on redirect examination as to his reasons for his ..."

4. A Brief for the Trial of Criminal Cases by Austin Abbott, William Constantine Beecher (1902)
"An expert may be asked on redirect examination for the reasons of an opinion ... So, a witness may testify on redirect examination as to his reasons for hia ..."

5. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence: With a Discussion of the Principles and by Harry Clay Underhill (1894)
"redirect examination.— A witness may be re- examined by the party calling him when, on cross-examination, he has been questioned in regard to a prior ..."

6. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence as Administered in England and Ireland by John Pitt Taylor, George Pitt-Lewis, Charles Frederic Chamberlayne (1897)
"Whether this limitation on the redirect examination shall be rigidly ... It follows from the scope of redirect examination that its object is not to enable ..."

7. The Encyclopædia of Pleading and Practice: Under the Codes and Practice Acts by William Mark McKinney, Thomas Johnson Michie (1897)
"redirect examination—1. Purpose and Extent.—When a witness has been examined and cross-examined, the party who called him may then re-examine him if he ..."

8. Current Law (1904)
"redirect examination.—The redirect examination is properly limited to matter drawn from the witness on cross-examination, and the examiner may ask questions ..."

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