summary proceeding

American  

noun

Law.

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

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summary proceeding

“How many aching hearts have been divorced by this summary proceeding no man can ever know,” Thomson wrote.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 12, 2019

The power of a judge to inflict punishment for criminal contempt by means of a summary proceeding stands as an anomaly in the law .

From Time Magazine Archive

In this state the latter was carried nearly forty miles to the Cimarron River, where he died, and was buried according to the custom of the prairies, a very summary proceeding, necessarily.

From The old Santa Fe trail The Story of a Great Highway by Buffalo Bill

The principles upon which this summary proceeding was adopted by the ministerial board are stated by themselves in a number in the appendix to this speech.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

While this may have indicated too great confidence in the civil authorities of Louisiana, it certainly did not imply any connivance in or sympathy with the summary proceeding of July 30.

From The Struggle between President Johnson and Congress over Reconstruction by Chadsey, Charles Ernest