Trial practice
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 39 U.S. 448 - The Philadelphia and Trenton Railroad Company v. James Stimpson · 1840Most cited · 218 citing opinions
court discretion over order of evidence
The mode of conducting trials, the order of introducing evidence, and the times when it is to be introduced, are, properly, matters belonging to the practice of the Circuit Courts, with which this Court ought not to interfere; unless it shall choose to prescribe some fixed, general rules on the subject, under the authority of the act of Congress.
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