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Definition of Summary judgment
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
Definition of Summary judgment
1. Noun. (legal) The determination by a court that no factual issues are in dispute, and that the legal issues require the case to be decided in favor of one party or the other. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Summary Judgment
Literary usage of Summary judgment
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Law of Suretyship and Guaranty as Administered by Courts of Countries by George Washington Brandt (1905)
"Held, that a summary judgment upon it was unauthorized and might . be vacated
... Held, that, nevertheless, a summary judgment that had been entered against ..."
2. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1917)
"It is contended that the district court had no power under the Constitution to
render a summary judgment against the sureties upon affirmance of the decree ..."
3. A Treatise on the Law of Replevin: As Administered in the Courts of the by Henry Ward Wells, Ebenezer Tracy Wells (1907)
"Ap., 37 SW 784; but not if the j record shows that the goods have been disposed
of, Id. summary judgment.—summary judgment may be entered against ..."
4. Rose's Notes on the United States Supreme Court Reports (2 Dallas to 241 by Walter Malins Rose, Charles Lawrence Thompson, United States Supreme Court (1918)
"347, 351, holding such summary judgment ... sureties on supersedeas bond that he
would apply for summary decree on bond, court could render summary judgment ..."
5. Annotated Cases, American and English by H Noyes Greene, William Mark McKinney, David Shephard Garland (1918)
"... the act governing the filing thereof, and for that reason the judgment is
affirmed, a summary judgment against the sureties may nevertheless be entered. ..."
6. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1896)
"So. ян injunction against a Judgment for purchase moue.v was granted where the
order of sale was on a summary Judgment and the vendor had stipulated that ..."
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