Summing Up

Defined in 6 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Anderson (1889), Abbott (1879)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

In practice. The act of making a speech before a court and jury, after all the evidence has been heard, in favor of one of the parties in the cause, is called "summing up." When the judge delivers his charge to the jury, he usually sums up the evidence in the case. 6 Harg.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

Instructions of the court to the jury at the close of the testimony.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

The act of making a speech before a court and jury, after all the evidence has been heard, in favor of one of the parties in the cause. When the judge delivers his charge to the jury, he usually sums up the evidence in the case. See Opening and Closing.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

On the trial of an action by a jury, is a recapitulation of the evidence adduced, in order to draw the attention of the jury to the salient points. The counsel for each party has the right of summing up hls evidence, lf he has adduced any, and the judge finally sums up the whole in hls charge to the jury. Smith, Act. 157. And see State v. Ezzard, 40 S. O. 312, 18 S. E. 1025.

A Dictionary of Law

William C. Anderson · 1889

See Sum Up.

Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence

Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879

An address, such as is usually incidental to a jury trial of a cause, reviewing the evidence and explaining the application of the law to the facts, is called the summing up of the cause, or, briefly, the summing up. Making this address is summing up, and to make it is to sum up. The expressions seem not inapplicable to the closing address or argument of either counsel, or to the judge's charge. Sometimes the entire, aggregate discussion by all three would be termed the summing up; as if one should say that the summing up, in a given case, occupied a week.