Casualty Co., 99 Wis
Categories: Criminal Law
Definition (1910 Edition)
530, 75 N. W. 67; In re Emslie (D. C.) 98 Fed. 720; Id., 102 Fed. 298, 42 ©. C. A. 350; Mack v. Campau, 60 ¥t. 558, 38 Atl. 149, 69 Am. St. Rep. 948. aid. Qrtagrss proceeding. This phrase has been used in the New York and other codes of procedure as a generic term for all civil remedies which are not ofrdinary actions. Code Proc. N. Y. § 3—Suammary proceeding. Any proceeding by which a controversy ié settled, case disposed of, or trial conducted, in a prompt and simple manner, without the afd of a jury, without presentment or indictment, or in other respects out of the regular course of the common law. In procedure, proceedings are said to be summary when they are short and simple in comparison with regular proceedings; é. c., in comparison with the proceedings which
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