- pretrial discovery
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See: discoveryCategory: Small Claims Court & Lawsuits
Nolo’s Plain-English Law Dictionary. Gerald N. Hill, Kathleen Thompson Hill. 2009.
- pretrial discovery
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n.See also: discovery
Law dictionary. EdwART. 2013.
pretrial discovery
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pretrial discovery — See discovery … Ballentine's law dictionary
pretrial conference — n: a proceeding attended by the parties to an action and a judge or magistrate and held at a party s request or on the judge s initiative for the purpose of focusing the issues, making discovery, entering into stipulations, obtaining rulings, and … Law dictionary
discovery — dis·cov·ery n pl er·ies 1: the act or process of discovering 2: something discovered applied for a patent for the discovery 3 a: the methods used by parties to a civil or criminal action to obtain information held by the other party that is… … Law dictionary
pretrial examination proceedings — index discovery Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
discovery — [di skuv′ər ē] n. pl. discoveries 1. the act of discovering 2. anything discovered 3. Archaic the act of revealing; disclosure 4. Law any pretrial procedures, as the taking of depositions, for compelling the disclosure of pertinent factual… … English World dictionary
discovery — n. finding 1) to make a discovery 2) a dramatic; exciting, startling, world shaking; scientific discovery 3) a discovery that + clause (we made the exciting discovery that exercise can be fun) pretrial disclosure of facts (legal) 4) to conduct… … Combinatory dictionary
discovery — /di skuv euh ree/, n., pl. discoveries. 1. the act or an instance of discovering. 2. something discovered. 3. Law. compulsory disclosure, as of facts or documents. 4. (cap., italics) U.S. Aerospace. the third space shuttle to orbit and return to… … Universalium
pretrial — noun (law) a conference held before the trial begins to bring the parties together to outline discovery proceedings and to define the issues to be tried; more useful in civil than in criminal cases • Syn: ↑pretrial conference • Topics: ↑law,… … Useful english dictionary
pretrial conference — noun (law) a conference held before the trial begins to bring the parties together to outline discovery proceedings and to define the issues to be tried; more useful in civil than in criminal cases • Syn: ↑pretrial • Topics: ↑law, ↑jurisprudence… … Useful english dictionary
discovery — noun (plural eries) Date: 1529 1. a. the act or process of discovering b. (1) archaic disclosure (2) obsolete display c. obsolete … New Collegiate Dictionary
