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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.
Generic synonyms: Judgement, Judgment, Judicial Decision
Category relationships: Jurisprudence, Law
Lexicographical Neighbors of Summary Judgement
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 ..."