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Definition of Rehear

1. Verb. Hear or try a court case anew. "They want to rehear the prisoners "

Definition of Rehear

1. v. t. To hear again; to try a second time; as, to rehear a cause in Chancery.

Definition of Rehear

1. Verb. to hear again ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Rehear

1. hear [v -HEARD, -HEARING, -HEARS] - See also: hear

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rehear

Literary usage of Rehear

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

1. Journal by New York (State). Legislature. Senate (1921)
"672) entitled "An act authorizing the police commissioner of the city of New York to rehear the charges upon which Meyer Pollack, formerly a patrolman in ..."

2. The Queensland Law Journal Reports by W. H. Osborne (1897)
"After the time allowed for appeal from the order had elapsed, an application was made to rehear the motion, and vary the order on the ground that the ..."

3. Reports of Cases Under the Bankruptcy Act, 1883 [and 1890]: Decided in the by Great Britain High Court of Justice, Charles Francis Morrell, Great Britain Court of Appeal (1891)
"Held : That leave to rehear would be given, but only on condition that the costs of the previous day as fixed by the Court at £3 3». were paid by the ..."

4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Tennessee by Benjamin James Lea, Tennessee Supreme Court (1886)
"PETITION TO rehear. Upon petition to rehear, COOPER, J., said: The petition for rehearing in this case calls our attention to the fact that the act of the ..."

5. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1920)
"An appeal is a matter of right, but a petition to rehear is not, ... CLARK, CJ This te a second petition to rehear, and In fact a third petition, ..."

6. A Treatise on the Power and Duty of an Arbitrator, and the Law of by Francis Russell (1878)
"0 J unless rehear the witnesses, or any of them, or tender any fresh evidence relative to the matters in difference, the said umpire shall rehear such ..."

7. A Digest of the Laws of England by Anthony Hammond, John Comyns (1826)
"... by observations on the part of the advocate, contrary to the usual practico, the court refused to grant a mandamus to rehear the appeal. 3 B. if A. 86. ..."

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