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Leading question
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Leading questionA question which suggests an answer; usually answerable by "yes" or "no". These are forbidden to ensure that the witness is not coached by their lawyer through his or her testimony. Leading questions are only acceptable in cross-examination or where a witness is declared hostile.
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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.
Answer
Practice. The declaration of a fact by a witness after a question has been put asking for it.
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).
Lawyer
A person licensed to practice law; other words for "lawyer" include: attorney, counsel, solicitor and barrister.
Testimony
Evidence. The statement made by a witness under oath or affirmation
Leading
That which is to be followed; as, a leading case; leading question, leading counsel.
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.
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Leader
An underwriter whose judgment is so respected by other underwriters that they will follow his lead in accepting a risk presented by the assured's broker. His syndicate or company will be the first to initial the slip presented by the assured's broker.
Leading
That which is to be followed; as, a leading case; leading question, leading counsel.
Leading case
A case decided by a court in the last resort, which settles a particular point or question. The principles upon which it is decided are to be followed in future cases, which are similar to it. Collections of such cases have been made, with commentaries upon them by White, by Wallace and Hare, and others.
Leading counsel
English, law. When there are two or more counsel employed on the same side in a cause, he who has the principal management of the cause, is called the leading counsel, as distinguished from the other, who is called the junior counsel.
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Le roi veut en deliberer
The king will deliberate on it. This is the formula which the late French king used, when he intended to veto an act of the legislative assembly.
Leader
An underwriter whose judgment is so respected by other underwriters that they will follow his lead in accepting a risk presented by the assured's broker. His syndicate or company will be the first to initial the slip presented by the assured's broker.
Leading
That which is to be followed; as, a leading case; leading question, leading counsel.
Leading case
A case decided by a court in the last resort, which settles a particular point or question. The principles upon which it is decided are to be followed in future cases, which are similar to it. Collections of such cases have been made, with commentaries upon them by White, by Wallace and Hare, and others.
Leading counsel
English, law. When there are two or more counsel employed on the same side in a cause, he who has the principal management of the cause, is called the leading counsel, as distinguished from the other, who is called the junior counsel.
Leading question
League
1) In criminal law, a league is a conspiracy to do an unlawful act. 2) In contracts it is applied to agreements between states. 3) A league is a measure of length, which consists of three geographical miles.
Leakage
The waste which has taken place in liquids, by their escaping out of the casks or vessels in which they were kept.
Leal
Loyal; that which belongs to the law.
Lease
A special kind of contract between a property owner and a person wanting temporary enjoyment and use of the property, in exchange for rent paid to the property owner. Where the property is land, a building, or parts of either, the property owner is called a landlord and the person that contracts to receive the temporary enjoyment and use is called a tenant.
Lease and release
A species of conveyance, invented by Serjeant Moore, soon after the enactment of the statute of uses. It is thus contrived; a lease, or rather bargain and sale, upon some pecuniary consideration, for one year, is made by the tenant of the freehold to the lessee or bargainee. This, is made by the tenant of the freehold to the lessee or bargainee. The lease and release, when used as a conveyance of the fee, have the joint operation of a single conveyance.
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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.
Answer
Practice. The declaration of a fact by a witness after a question has been put asking for it.
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).
Lawyer
A person licensed to practice law; other words for "lawyer" include: attorney, counsel, solicitor and barrister.
Testimony
Evidence. The statement made by a witness under oath or affirmation
Leading
That which is to be followed; as, a leading case; leading question, leading counsel.
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.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Leader
An underwriter whose judgment is so respected by other underwriters that they will follow his lead in accepting a risk presented by the assured's broker. His syndicate or company will be the first to initial the slip presented by the assured's broker.
Leading
That which is to be followed; as, a leading case; leading question, leading counsel.
Leading case
A case decided by a court in the last resort, which settles a particular point or question. The principles upon which it is decided are to be followed in future cases, which are similar to it. Collections of such cases have been made, with commentaries upon them by White, by Wallace and Hare, and others.
Leading counsel
English, law. When there are two or more counsel employed on the same side in a cause, he who has the principal management of the cause, is called the leading counsel, as distinguished from the other, who is called the junior counsel.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Le roi veut en deliberer
The king will deliberate on it. This is the formula which the late French king used, when he intended to veto an act of the legislative assembly.
Leader
An underwriter whose judgment is so respected by other underwriters that they will follow his lead in accepting a risk presented by the assured's broker. His syndicate or company will be the first to initial the slip presented by the assured's broker.
Leading
That which is to be followed; as, a leading case; leading question, leading counsel.
Leading case
A case decided by a court in the last resort, which settles a particular point or question. The principles upon which it is decided are to be followed in future cases, which are similar to it. Collections of such cases have been made, with commentaries upon them by White, by Wallace and Hare, and others.
Leading counsel
English, law. When there are two or more counsel employed on the same side in a cause, he who has the principal management of the cause, is called the leading counsel, as distinguished from the other, who is called the junior counsel.
Leading question
League
1) In criminal law, a league is a conspiracy to do an unlawful act. 2) In contracts it is applied to agreements between states. 3) A league is a measure of length, which consists of three geographical miles.
Leakage
The waste which has taken place in liquids, by their escaping out of the casks or vessels in which they were kept.
Leal
Loyal; that which belongs to the law.
Lease
A special kind of contract between a property owner and a person wanting temporary enjoyment and use of the property, in exchange for rent paid to the property owner. Where the property is land, a building, or parts of either, the property owner is called a landlord and the person that contracts to receive the temporary enjoyment and use is called a tenant.
Lease and release
A species of conveyance, invented by Serjeant Moore, soon after the enactment of the statute of uses. It is thus contrived; a lease, or rather bargain and sale, upon some pecuniary consideration, for one year, is made by the tenant of the freehold to the lessee or bargainee. This, is made by the tenant of the freehold to the lessee or bargainee. The lease and release, when used as a conveyance of the fee, have the joint operation of a single conveyance.
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