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A deposition in the law of the United States, or examination for discovery in the law of Canada, involves the taking of sworn, out-of-court oral testimony of a witness that may be reduced to a written transcript for later use in court or for discovery purposes. Depositions are commonly used in litigation in the United States and Canada. They ...
Gift (law), assets that have been legally transferred from one person to another; Legacy, testamentary gift of personal property, traditionally of money but may be real or personal property; Life estate, [1] a concept used in common and statutory law to designate the ownership of land for the duration of a person's life
In the context of American law, a proceeding de bene esse is one "which [is] taken ex parte or provisionally and [is] allowed to stand as well done for the present." [3] A deposition that is used or intended to be used in place of a witness' live testimony in court is referred to as a de bene esse deposition.
Certificates of Disposition are available from the clerk's office in either the Criminal Court or the Supreme Court, Criminal Term, both trial courts in New York City. [2] It is also available in all other city courts in Upstate New York, for example, Binghamton, New York, [3] and Plattsburgh, New York. [4]
The contours of the legal arguments in Deshaun Watson's civil suits are beginning to take shape, focused through the deposition of a Houston Police Department investigator.
In law, a summary order is a determination made by a court without issuing a legal opinion. This disposition is also known as a nonopinion, summary opinion, affirmance without opinion, unpublished order, disposition without opinion, or abbreviated disposition. It is not to be confused with summary judgment, which means a decision without trial.
In law, a dispositive motion is a motion seeking a trial court order entirely disposing of all or part of the claims in favor of the moving party without need for further trial court proceedings. "To dispose" of a claim means to decide the claim in favor of one or another party.
Discovery, in the law of common law jurisdictions, is a phase of pretrial procedure in a lawsuit in which each party, through the law of civil procedure, can obtain evidence from other parties. This is by means of methods of discovery such as interrogatories , requests for production of documents , requests for admissions and depositions .