Definition of Summary judgement

1. Noun. A judgment rendered by the court prior to a verdict because no material issue of fact exists and one party or the other is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Summary Judgement

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summary judgement (current term)
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summation plural
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Literary usage of Summary judgement

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

1. The Media and the Rwanda Genocide by Allan Thompson (2007)
"25 The Verdict: summary judgement from the Media Trial This chapter is a transcript of the summary judgement of the International Criminal Tribunal for ..."

2. Doe's Fixed-price Cleanup Contracts: Why Are Costs Still Out of Control edited by Fred Upton (2001)
"The Court initially denied that motion into a motion for summary judgement on which the Court could make a dispositive ruling. ..."

3. The English Historical Review by Mandell Creighton, Justin Winsor, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Reginald Lane Poole, John Goronwy Edwards (1913)
"... is perfectly justified in his summary judgement that in them ' La théorie du régime constitutionnel surgissait en France plus de cent ans avant son ..."

4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Alabama by Alabama Supreme Court (1830)
"To authorize a summary judgement against the security on a bond for' the delivery of property taken m execution and claimed by a third person, ..."

5. The New York Code of Civil Procedure: Containing All Amendments of 1912 by New York (State), John Crawford Thomson, Henry Browne Parsons (1912)
"summary judgement for sli.-rin. In an action brought by a sheriff on an undertaking for the jail liberties, if it appears to the court, upon a motion made ..."

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