summary proceeding


nounLaw.
  1. a mode of trial authorized by statute to be held before a judge without the usual full hearing.

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How to use summary proceeding in a sentence

  • Eustace's motive for this summary proceeding was much the same motive which animated his conduct toward you.

    The Law and the Lady | Wilkie Collins
  • The taxes are usually levied by the more summary proceeding of distress and sale, as in cases of rent.

    The Federalist Papers | Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison
  • Personally, he favored a short and summary proceeding, accordant to his own decided character.

    The Life of Nelson, Vol. II. (of 2) | A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan
  • At this summary proceeding both the Chinese helpers gripped their flat-irons firmly; and leaped forward to fight.

  • It is punished sometimes by indictment, and sometimes in a summary proceeding, as it was in this case.

    Atrocious Judges | John Campbell, Baron Campbell