Summing Up
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
An address, such as is usually incidental to a jury trial of a cause, reviewing the evidence and explaining the application of the law to the facts, is called the summing up of the cause, or, briefly, the summing up. Making this address is summing up, and to make it is to sum up. The expressions seem not inapplicable to the closing address or argument of either counsel, or to the judge's charge. Sometimes the entire, aggregate discussion by all three would be termed the summing up; as if one should say that the summing up, in a given case, occupied a week.