Lead

V. To conduct in the way of duty. More frequently, "mislead."

See INSTRUCT, 3.

Lead a use

To declare or specify what ude.^^ Lead a witness. To suggest, by interrogation, the nature of the answer or answers » -yer is a suffix, as in sawyer. "Revenue Act 13 July, 1866, § 79: 14 St. L. 121. » Gk. laoa, the people. * A. S. lecgan, to cause to lay: licgan, to lie. » 8 Kent, 202. • [Cone V. Hartford, 38 Conn. 376 (1859), Storrs, C. J.; 19 id. 597. 'Fuller V. Springfield, 128 Mass. 291 (1877), Gray, C. J. 'Foster v. Park Commissioners, 133 Mass. 329 (1882), Field, J. » Charlestown, &c. R. Co. v. County Commissioners, 7 Mete. 84 (1843). 1" Bowman v. Boston, 5 Cush. 8 (1849); Fernald c. Boston, 12 id. 678-79 (1863). it is desired that the witness shall make. See Leading Question. Ijead in a cause or trial. To have the chief management of one side of a matter in litigation. See Leading Ccnmsel. Leading ease. A decision which is regarded, more or less generally, as settling the law upon the question involved. The idea may have been originally that such case stands first, in time, in a series of cases — takes the lead, is followed by others, enunciates the rule. Decisions, with and without annotations, and illustrative-of different branches of the law, have been collected and styled " Leading Cases." Leading counsel. That attorney, of two or more employed upon the same side of a cause, who has the principal management of his client's case.

Leading question

A question which plainly suggests the answer wanted from a witness.

See further Question, 1.