exhibit list. 1. A pretrial filing that identifies by number and description the exhibits that a party intends to offer into evidence at trial. • Courts often require the exchange of exhibit lists before trial so that evidentiary disputes can be resolved with minimal disruption in the course of a jury trial. [Cases: Federal Civil […]
A confidential mediation session that a mediator holds with an individual party to elicit settle-ment offers and demands. • When separate caucuses are used, the mediator typically shuttles between the two (or more) sides of a dispute to communicate offers and demands. Formerly, ABA Model Rule of Professional Re-sponsibility 2.2 (governing when a lawyer could
Evidence establishing the fact in dispute by a preponderance of the evidence. [Cases: Evidence 99. C.J.S. Evidence §§ 2–5, 197–199, 204, 206.]
mediation (mee-dee-ay-sh[schwa]n), n. 1. A method of nonbinding dispute resolution involving a neutral third party who tries to help the disputing parties reach a mutually agreeable solution; CONCILIATION. — Also termed case evaluation; facilitated negotiation. [Cases: Arbitration 1–47. C.J.S. Arbitration §§ 2–90, 92–93, 107, 109–110, 179–188; Architects§ 25.] 2. Int’l law. A process whereby a
dragnet restraints 全面禁止令 法院在处理劳资争议〔labor disputes〕过程中发布的禁止劳工为拖延争议而采取的任何行动的命令。
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non liquet (non lI-kwet orli-kwet). [Latin “it is not clear”] 1. Civil law. The principle that a decision-maker may decline to decide a dispute on the ground that the matter is unclear. • Even British judges formerly sometimes said Non liquet and found for the defendant. 2. Int’l law. A tribunal’s nondecision resulting from the
minitrial. A private, voluntary, and informal form of dispute resolution in which each party’s attorney presents an abbreviated version of its case to a neutral third party and to the opponent’s representatives, who have settlement authority. • The third party may render an advisory opinion on the anticipated outcome of litigation. Cf. summary jury trial
Court of Exchequer (eks-chek-[schwa]r oreks-chek-[schwa]r). Hist. A former English superior court responsible primarily for adjudicating disputes about the collection of public revenue. • In 1873 it became the Exchequer Division of the High Court of Justice. In 1881 that Division was merged into the Queen’s Bench Division. See QUEEN’S BENCH DIVISION. Cf. CHAMBER OF ACCOUNTS.
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quot articuli tot libelli (kwot ahr-tik-y[schwa]-lI taht li-bel-I). [Law Latin] Hist. As many points of dispute as libels.
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court a quo. See COURT. COURT BARON court baron. Hist. A manorial court with jurisdiction over amounts in controversy of 40 shillings or less. • Ac-cording to some authorities, the court baron developed into two courts: the customary court baron for disputes involving copyholders, and the court baron proper (also known as the freeholders’ court