Summary

adj. Immediate; peremptory ; off-hand; without a jury; provisional; statutory.

— Summary actions. In Scotch law. Those which are brought into court not by summons, but by petition, corresponding to summary proceedings in English courts. Bell; Brown. -Summary conviction. See Conviction.

— Summary jnrisdiction. See Jurisdiction.

— Summary procedure on hills of exchange. This phrase refers to the statute 18 & 19 Vich c. 67, passed in 1855, for the purpose of facilitating the remedies on bills and notes by the prevention of frivolous or fictitious defenses. By this stafute, a defendant in an action on a bili or note, brought within six months after it has become payable, is prohibited from defending the action without the leave of the court or a judge. See 2 Steph. Comm. 118, note ; Lush, Pr. 1027.

— Summary proceeding. See Pboceeding.

n. An abridgment; brief; compendium; also a short application to a court or judge, without the formality of a full proceeding. Wharton.