Summary Judgment
nounid
127689·updated May 18, 2026verified
a judgment rendered by the court prior to a verdict because no material issue of fact exists and one party or the other is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law
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Entity Type
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unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- synonym
- judgement on the pleadingsjudgment on the pleadingssummary judgement
- plural
- Summary Judgments
- possessive
- Summary Judgment's
- pluralpossessive
- Summary Judgments'
Framework definitions
- §1
- a judgment rendered by the court prior to a verdict because no material issue of fact exists and one party or the other is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law
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