Refresh The Memory
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
To revive the recollection of a subject by referring to something connected with it. Commonly applied to the right of a witness to refer, even on the stand, to memoranda made by him at the time of a transaction, but which are not of themselves evidence, to refresh his recollection.
See 5 Wend. (N. Y.) 301; 6 Pick. (Mass.) 222; 2 Conn. 213,