Meaning of summing up | Babel Free

Definitions

A summary of the main points, especially (law) a judge's recapitulation of the evidence given to a jury before it withdraws to consider its verdict.

Examples

“Here is one of the most masterly summing ups of the present industrial warfare 'between men and women that has come to this column. It shows the present dilemma and how it has come to be, but it does not suggest a solution, for the writer realizes, in common with most thinking people, that at present there is no solution.”

“SOME SUMMING UPS / A lawyer’s opening address is properly a short talk to arouse interest in a selling proposition, the evidence is the sample and the summing up a final effort to close the sale.”

“What the English call in their courts the trial judge’s “summing up” we call in our country the “charge to the jury.” […] When I have contrasted the exercise of this judicial function, as I have been reading summing ups and charges to the jury, the superiority of the summing up of the British judge over the charge to the jury of the American judge for all beneficial purposes has been clearly seen.”

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