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pleadings
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Legal documents filed with the court asking it to take some sort of action.In most cases, the party filing the document must send a copy to the other party to give them ample opportunity to respond.
pretrial hearing
Legal services; Courts
A hearing usually held for the purpose of clarifying issues and determining the length of the upcoming trial, is called as pretrial hearing.
remand
Legal services; Courts
The action an appellate court takes when it sends a case back to the trial court for further deliberation is called remand.
remittitur
Legal services; Courts
The process whereby a judge subtracts from the amount of damages a jury has awarded. In fact, the judge gives the party awarded damages the choice of accepting a lesser amount.
summons
Legal services; Courts
The legal document that notifies a defendant that he is being sued or charged in a legal action and that notifies him that he must respond or appear within a specific period of time.
plain view doctrine
Legal services; Courts
The doctrine that states that police do not need a warrant to initiates a search or investigation for something that was observed in plain view.
nunc pro tunc
Legal services; Courts
Latin for "now for then"; used in situations in which something that occurs in the present is treated by court declaration as if it occurred then.
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