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Definition of Take the stand
1. Verb. Give testimony in a court of law. "They take the stand that there was a traffic accident "
Category relationships: Jurisprudence, Law
Generic synonyms: Declare
Specialized synonyms: Vouch
Derivative terms: Attestant, Attestation, Testifier, Testimony, Testimony, Testimony
Definition of Take the stand
1. Verb. (idiomatic) To testify as a witness in a trial. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Take The Stand
Literary usage of Take the stand
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1915)
"They can or they need not take the stand. It matters not in case they decide ...
Of course, they did not take the stand. That, of course, is apparent before ..."
2. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence by Simon Greenleaf (1899)
"... amounts to a waiver of the disqualification and entitles the survivor to take
the stand against the books." The basis of this branch of the exception, ..."
3. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
"[7] As to the failure of the defendants to take the stand as witnesses in their
own behalf, the case of Goodman v. Sapp, 102 NC 477, 98 SE 483, ..."
4. A Brief for the Trial of Criminal Cases by Austin Abbott, William Constantine Beecher (1902)
"The court should not qualify his instructions that the failure of defendant in
a criminal case to take the stand should not raise any presumption against ..."
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