summary judgment

[ suhm-uh-ree juhj-muhnt ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, Law.

a judgment that is entered without the necessity of jury trial, as one based on affidavits that convince the court that there is no arguable issue:
The creditor filed a motion for summary judgment against the debtor.

First recorded in 1795–1800

Retribution was fast setting in, and summary judgment had overtaken them in a number of places.

An obligee of a common money bond can, since the date of the Judicature Act, obtain summary judgment under O. xiv.

He will execute summary judgment upon His enemies, and take to Himself His great power and reign.

Here, after a summary judgment, he was shot at night in the moat behind the guardhouse.

By the ninth of July the affair was sufficiently advanced for a "summary judgment."

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