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summary proceeding
noun
, Law.
- a mode of trial authorized by statute to be held before a judge without the usual full hearing.
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Eustace's motive for this summary proceeding was much the same motive which animated his conduct toward you.
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The taxes are usually levied by the more summary proceeding of distress and sale, as in cases of rent.
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Personally, he favored a short and summary proceeding, accordant to his own decided character.
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At this summary proceeding both the Chinese helpers gripped their flat-irons firmly; and leaped forward to fight.
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It is punished sometimes by indictment, and sometimes in a summary proceeding, as it was in this case.
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