Exhibit
Defined in 10 dictionaries — Case Law, Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Black's (1891), Anderson (1889), Burrill (1850), Bouvier (1839)
Definitions from Case Law
From 390 U.S. 676 - Interstate Circuit, Inc. v. City of Dallas · 1968Most cited · 632 citing opinions
to project a film at any motion picture theatre or other public place within the City of Dallas to which tickets are sold for admission.
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
As a verb, to produce a thing publicly, so that it may be taken possession of and seized. Dig. 10. 4. 2. To file of record. Thus, it is the practice in England in personal actions, when an officer or prisoner of the king's bench is defendant, to proceed against such defendant in the court in which he is an officer, by exhibiting, that is, filing, a bill against him. Steph. PI. 52, note (1); 2 Sellon, Prac. 74. To administer; to cause a thing to be taken by a patient. Chit. Med. Jur. 9. As a noun, a supplemental paper referred to in the principal instrument, identified in some particular manner, as by a capital letter, and generally attached to the principal instrument. 1 Strange, 674; 2 P. Wms. 410; Gresl. Eq. Ev. 98. A paper referred to in and filed with the bill, answer, or petition in a suit in equity.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
To produce a thing publicly, so that i#may be taken possession of and seized. Dig. 10. 4. 2. To file of record. Thus, it is the practice in England in personal actions, when an officer or prisoner of the king's bench is defendant, to proceed against such defendant in the court in which he is an officer, by exhibiting, that is, filing, a bill against him. Steph. PI. 52, n. {I); 2 Sellon, Pr. 74; Newell v. State, 2 Conn. 38. A paper or writing proved on motion or other occasion. A supplemental paper referred to in the principal instrument, identified in some particular manner, as by capital letter, and generally attached to the principal instrument. 1 Stra. 674; 2 P. Wms. 410; Gresl. Eq. Ev. 98. A paper referred to in, and filed with the bill, answer, or petition in a suit in equity, or with a deposition. Brown v. Redwyne, 16 Ga. 68. be attached to the deposition in connection with which they are offered in evidence; Toby v. R. Co., 98 Cal. 490, 33 Pac. 550. It has been held that the exhibits filed with a petition form no part thereof, and cannot be considered in determining its sufficiency on demurrer; Pomeroy v. Fullerton, 113 Mo. 440, 21 S. W. 19; and if the exhibit is not the foundation for the cause of action or of the defence, it will not be considered; Barnes v. Mowry, 129 Ind. 568, 28 N. E. 535. Documents and other things, produced by a witness on cross-examination and marked for identification, are not before the court unless offered and admitted; Byerley v. Sun Co., 181 Fed. 138.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
To present or show in legal form; to present to a court
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
cv. To show or display; to otfer or present for inspection. To produee anything in public, so that it may be taken into possession. Dig, 10, 4, 2. To present; to offer publicly or officially; to file of record. Thus we speak of exhibit ing a charge of treason, exiibiting a biil against an ollicer of the king’s bench by way of proceeding against him in that court, To administer; to cause to be taken; es medicines.
A Dictionary of Law
William C. Anderson · 1889
3 1, V. To produce, offer, or expose for inspection: as, to exhibit an account, a balance, a bill in equity, a complaint or information, written interrogatories, a bill or note for payment.* 3, n. A document produced and identified for use as evidence, before a jury, referee, master, or in the course of pleading. "Where there are several such documents it is customary to identify them as " Exhibit A," " B," or A 1, A 2, etc.; and, when produced in evidence, to mark upon them also the date, and the stenographer's or commissioner's name. A document cannot be proved as an exhibit when it requires more to substantiate it than proof of the execution or of the handwriting.' " Ex. A " was held to mean " Exhibit A." •
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
[Lat. exhibitum, (from exhibere, q. v.) shown to.] In practice. Any writing which, on the examination of a witness before an examiner, or commissioner, is exhibited, or shown to the witness to be proved, and on the back of which, the examiner or commissioner certifies that such writing was shown to the witness, at the time of his examination, and by him sworn to. Jacob. Gray's Chanc. Pr. 98. Where there are several, they are generally distinguished by the letters of the alphabet, as "exhibit A.," "exhibit B.," &c. EXHIBITIO BILLAE. L. Lat. (The exhibition of the bill.)
In old practice. A phrase formerly used in pleading, and generally equivalent to "the commencement of the suit;" the suit, (where the proceedings were by bill,) being anciently commenced by the exhibition of such a bill to the court.
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
John Bouvier · 1839
in practice; where a paper or other writing is on motion, or on other occasion proved; or if an affidavit to which the paperwriting is annexed refer to it, it is usual to mark the same with a capital letter, and to add, “This paper writing, marked with the letter A, was shown to the deponent at the time of his being sworn by me, and is the same by him referred to by the affidavit annexed hereto.” Such paper or other writing, with this attestation, signed by the judge or other person before whom the affidavit shall have been sworn, is called an exhibit. Vide Stra. 674; 2 P. Wms. 410.: