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Cross-examination
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Cross-examinationIn trials, each party calls witnesses. Each party may also question the other's witness(es). When you ask questions of the other party's witness(es), it is called a "cross-examination" and you are allowed considerably more latitude in cross-examination then when you question your own witnesses (called an "examination-in-chief"). For example, you are not allowed to ask leading questions to your own witness whereas you can in cross-examination.
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Each
Every one of the two or more composing the whole.
Party
Practice, contracts. When applied to practice, by party is understood either the plaintiff or defendant. In contracts, a party is one or more persons who engage to perform or receive the performance of some agreement.
Witnesses
People who may have information of a Fraud based on observation.
Question
1) Punishment, crm. law. A means sometimes employed, in some countries, by means of torture, to compel supposed great criminals to disclose their accomplices, or to acknowledge their crimes. 2) Evidence. An interrogation put to a witness, requesting him to declare the truth of certain facts as far as he knows them. 3) Practice. A point on which the parties are not agreed, and which is submitted to the decision of a judge and jury.
When
1) At which time, in wills, standing by itself unqualified and unexplained, this is a word of condition denoting the time at which the gift is to continence. 2) The context of a will may show that the word when is to be applied to the possession only, not to the vesting of a legacy; but to justify this construction, there must be circumstances, or other expressions in the will, showing such to have been the testator's intent.
Cross-examination
In trials, each party calls witnesses. Each party may also question the other's witness(es). When you ask questions of the other party's witness(es), it is called a "cross-examination" and you are allowed considerably more latitude in cross-examination then when you question your own witnesses (called an "examination-in-chief"). For example, you are not allowed to ask leading questions to your own witness whereas you can in cross-examination.
Example
An example is a case put to illustrate a. principle.
Leading
That which is to be followed; as, a leading case; leading question, leading counsel.
Witness
The regular definition of this word is a person who perceives an event (by seeing, hearing, smelling or other sensory perception). The legal definition refers to the court-supervised recital of that sensory experience, in writing (deposition) or verbally (testimony).
Whereas
This word implies a recital, and in general cannot be used in the direct and positive averment of a fact in a declaration or plea. Those facts which are directly denied by the terms of the general issue, or which may, by the established usage of pleading, be specially traversed, must be averred in positive and direct terms; but facts, however material, which are not directly denied by the terms of the general issue, though liable to be contested under it, and which, according to the usage of pleading, cannot be specially tra-versed, may be alleged in the declaration by way of recital, under a whereas.
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Cross
Contracts. A mark made by persons who are unable to write, instead of their names.
Cross action
An action by a defendant in an action, against the plaiutiff in the same action, upon the same contract, or for the same tort.
Cross bills
Practice. When an individual prosecutes a bill of indictment against another, and hte defendant procures another bill to be found against the first prosecutor, the bills so found by the grand jury are called corss bills.
Cross reference case
A separate case involving one parent in common, but in which there are other children from a different mother or father. either parent can have cross reference cases.
Cross-claim
A pleading which asserts a claim arising out of the same subject action as the original complaint against a co-party, i.e., one co-defendant cross claims against another co-defendant for contribution for any damages assessed against him.
Cross-demand
Counter-demand. A demand set up as against another demand on which claim is or can be made; a set-off.
Cross-petition
A statement of the reasons for the breakdown of the marriage issued by the respondent. it will be different than that of the petitioner.
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Cross action
An action by a defendant in an action, against the plaiutiff in the same action, upon the same contract, or for the same tort.
Cross bills
Practice. When an individual prosecutes a bill of indictment against another, and hte defendant procures another bill to be found against the first prosecutor, the bills so found by the grand jury are called corss bills.
Cross reference case
A separate case involving one parent in common, but in which there are other children from a different mother or father. either parent can have cross reference cases.
Cross-claim
A pleading which asserts a claim arising out of the same subject action as the original complaint against a co-party, i.e., one co-defendant cross claims against another co-defendant for contribution for any damages assessed against him.
Cross-demand
Counter-demand. A demand set up as against another demand on which claim is or can be made; a set-off.
Cross-examination
Cross-petition
A statement of the reasons for the breakdown of the marriage issued by the respondent. it will be different than that of the petitioner.
Crown
A covering for the head, commonly used by kings; figuratively, it signifies royal authority.
Cruise
Maritim law. A voyage or expedition in quest of vessels or fleets of the enemy which may be expected to sail through any particular track of the sea, at a certain season of the year the region in which these cruises are performed is usually termed the rendezvous or cruising latitude.
Cry de pays
Cry de pays or cri de pais. Literally, cry of the country. In England, when a felony has been committed, hue and cry may be raised by the country, in the absence of the constable. It is then cry de pays.
Cryer
Practice. An officer in a court whose duty it is to make various proclamations ordered by the court.
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Each
Every one of the two or more composing the whole.
Party
Practice, contracts. When applied to practice, by party is understood either the plaintiff or defendant. In contracts, a party is one or more persons who engage to perform or receive the performance of some agreement.
Witnesses
People who may have information of a Fraud based on observation.
Question
1) Punishment, crm. law. A means sometimes employed, in some countries, by means of torture, to compel supposed great criminals to disclose their accomplices, or to acknowledge their crimes. 2) Evidence. An interrogation put to a witness, requesting him to declare the truth of certain facts as far as he knows them. 3) Practice. A point on which the parties are not agreed, and which is submitted to the decision of a judge and jury.
When
1) At which time, in wills, standing by itself unqualified and unexplained, this is a word of condition denoting the time at which the gift is to continence. 2) The context of a will may show that the word when is to be applied to the possession only, not to the vesting of a legacy; but to justify this construction, there must be circumstances, or other expressions in the will, showing such to have been the testator's intent.
Cross-examination
In trials, each party calls witnesses. Each party may also question the other's witness(es). When you ask questions of the other party's witness(es), it is called a "cross-examination" and you are allowed considerably more latitude in cross-examination then when you question your own witnesses (called an "examination-in-chief"). For example, you are not allowed to ask leading questions to your own witness whereas you can in cross-examination.
Example
An example is a case put to illustrate a. principle.
Leading
That which is to be followed; as, a leading case; leading question, leading counsel.
Witness
The regular definition of this word is a person who perceives an event (by seeing, hearing, smelling or other sensory perception). The legal definition refers to the court-supervised recital of that sensory experience, in writing (deposition) or verbally (testimony).
Whereas
This word implies a recital, and in general cannot be used in the direct and positive averment of a fact in a declaration or plea. Those facts which are directly denied by the terms of the general issue, or which may, by the established usage of pleading, be specially traversed, must be averred in positive and direct terms; but facts, however material, which are not directly denied by the terms of the general issue, though liable to be contested under it, and which, according to the usage of pleading, cannot be specially tra-versed, may be alleged in the declaration by way of recital, under a whereas.
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Cross
Contracts. A mark made by persons who are unable to write, instead of their names.
Cross action
An action by a defendant in an action, against the plaiutiff in the same action, upon the same contract, or for the same tort.
Cross bills
Practice. When an individual prosecutes a bill of indictment against another, and hte defendant procures another bill to be found against the first prosecutor, the bills so found by the grand jury are called corss bills.
Cross reference case
A separate case involving one parent in common, but in which there are other children from a different mother or father. either parent can have cross reference cases.
Cross-claim
A pleading which asserts a claim arising out of the same subject action as the original complaint against a co-party, i.e., one co-defendant cross claims against another co-defendant for contribution for any damages assessed against him.
Cross-demand
Counter-demand. A demand set up as against another demand on which claim is or can be made; a set-off.
Cross-petition
A statement of the reasons for the breakdown of the marriage issued by the respondent. it will be different than that of the petitioner.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Cross action
An action by a defendant in an action, against the plaiutiff in the same action, upon the same contract, or for the same tort.
Cross bills
Practice. When an individual prosecutes a bill of indictment against another, and hte defendant procures another bill to be found against the first prosecutor, the bills so found by the grand jury are called corss bills.
Cross reference case
A separate case involving one parent in common, but in which there are other children from a different mother or father. either parent can have cross reference cases.
Cross-claim
A pleading which asserts a claim arising out of the same subject action as the original complaint against a co-party, i.e., one co-defendant cross claims against another co-defendant for contribution for any damages assessed against him.
Cross-demand
Counter-demand. A demand set up as against another demand on which claim is or can be made; a set-off.
Cross-examination
Cross-petition
A statement of the reasons for the breakdown of the marriage issued by the respondent. it will be different than that of the petitioner.
Crown
A covering for the head, commonly used by kings; figuratively, it signifies royal authority.
Cruise
Maritim law. A voyage or expedition in quest of vessels or fleets of the enemy which may be expected to sail through any particular track of the sea, at a certain season of the year the region in which these cruises are performed is usually termed the rendezvous or cruising latitude.
Cry de pays
Cry de pays or cri de pais. Literally, cry of the country. In England, when a felony has been committed, hue and cry may be raised by the country, in the absence of the constable. It is then cry de pays.
Cryer
Practice. An officer in a court whose duty it is to make various proclamations ordered by the court.
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