trial de novo
Defined in 2 dictionaries — Case Law, Ballentine's (1916)
Definitions from Case Law
From FCC v. AT&T (U.S. 2026, slip opinion) · 2026
a proceeding "in which the whole case is gone into as if no trial whatever had been had" in the initial tri- bunal.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
A second trial in an appellate court of a case previously tried in a lower court. See 8 Houst. (Del.) 163, 32 Atl. 225.