Extract
Defined in 8 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Black's (1891), Anderson (1889), Burrill (1850)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
A part of a writing. In general, an extract is not evidence, because the whole of the writing may explain the part extracted, so as to give it a different sense; but sometimes extracts from public books are evidence, as extracts from the registers of births, marriages, and burials, kept according to law, when the whole of the matter has been extracted which relates to the cause or matter in issue.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
A part of a writing. In general, an extract is not evidence, because the whole of the writing may explain the part extracted, so as to give it a different sense; but sometimes extracts from public books are evidence, as extracts from the registers of births, marriages, and burials, kept according to law, when the whole of the matter has been extracted which relates to the cause or matter in issue.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
In Scots law. The certified copy of the proceedings in an action.
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A portion or fragment of a writing. In Scotch law, the certilied copy, by a clerk of a court, of the proceedings in an action carried on before the court, and of the judgment pronounced; containing also an _order for execution or proceedings thereupon. Jacob; Whishaw.
A Dictionary of Law
William C. Anderson · 1889
See Copt; Estreat; Evidence, Secondary; Review, 8.
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
In Scotch law. The certified copy, by a clerk of a court, of the proceedings in an action carried on before the court, and of the judgment pronounced; containing also an order for execution or proceedings thereupon. Jacob. Whishaw,