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.

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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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