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hearingnoun	(uncountable) The sense used to perceive sound.
subpoenanoun	(law) A writ (“written order”) requiring someone to appear in court, or at a deposition or some other legal proceeding, as a witness to give testimony (a subpoena ad testificandum) or to produce evidence (subpoena duces tecum), in default of which the person may be punished.
voir direnoun	(law, US) The preliminary phase of a jury trial in which the jurors are examined and selected.
public hearingnoun	A meeting to hear public opinions on any issue; a meeting where members of the public hear the facts about any issue and give their opinions about it.
audita querelanoun	(law) A writ which lies for a party against whom judgment is recovered, but to whom good matter of discharge has subsequently accrued which could not have been availed of to prevent such judgment.
casenoun	An actual event, situation, or fact.
request for productionnoun	(law) A legal document filed in connection with litigation which asks the opposing party to provide documents or other physical objects.
case-in-chiefnoun	(law) The stage during trial in which the party with the burden of proof presents supporting evidence.
court casenoun	(law) a legal case to be resolved in a court
case reportnoun	(medicine) A detailed report of the symptoms, signs, diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up of an individual patient, possibly containing a demographic profile of the patient, but usually describing an unusual or novel occurrence.
elegitnoun	(archaic) A judicial writ ordering seizure of a debtor's property.
hearsay evidencenoun	evidence based on what someone has told the witness and not of direct knowledge
ancient documentnoun	(law) In the law of evidence, a document which is admissible as an exception to the hearsay rule, and which is considered self-authenticating, because it is older than a certain age (usually twenty years) and in a condition that makes it free from suspicion concerning its authenticity, and was found in a place where such a writing was likely to be kept.
direct examinationnoun	(law) In a legal trial, the questioning of a witness by the attorney for the party who has called the witness to testify.
misenoun	(law) The issue in a writ of right.
case notenoun	(chiefly in the plural) A note about a case by a doctor, lawyer, therapist, or similar professional.
calendar callnoun	(law) A hearing at which a judge will require all attorneys with cases pending before the court to appear so that the court may schedule hearings and trials.
pleadingnoun	The act of making a plea.
petitionnoun	A formal written request made by an individual or a group of people to a sovereign or political authority, often containing many signatures, soliciting some grace, right, mercy, or the redress of some wrong or grievance.
scire faciasnoun	(law) A judicial writ directing the sheriff to make the record known to a specified party, and requiring that defendant to show cause why the party bringing the writ should not be able to cite that record in his own interest, or why, in the case of letters patent and grants, the patent or grant should not be annulled and vacated.