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• summings — n. adding (Mathematics); act of summarizing …   English contemporary dictionary

• summing-up — summings up also summing up N COUNT In a trial, the judge s summing up is the speech the judge makes at the end of the trial to remind the jury of the evidence and the main arguments of the case they have heard. There was pandemonium in court as… …   English dictionary

• summing up — ˌsumming ˈup noun summings up PLURALFORM [countable usually singular] LAW an occasion when a judge makes a statement at the end of a trial giving the main facts of the trial: • The judge, in his summing up, failed to direct the jury that the… …   Financial and business terms

• summing-up — noun (plural summings up) Date: 1658 the act or statement of one who sums up …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• Pope Alexander Cooper — Sir Pope Alexander Cooper KCMG (12 May 1848 – 30 August 1923) was an attorney general and a chief judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland, which is the highest ranking court in the Australian State of Queensland.Early lifePope Alexander Cooper… …   Wikipedia

• summing-up — /sum ing up /, n., pl. summings up. a summation or statement made for the purpose of reviewing the basic concepts or principles of an argument, story, explanation, testimony, or the like, and usually presented at the end. [1780 90; sum up + ING1] …   Universalium

• COOPER, Sir Pope Alexander (1848-1923) — chief justice of Queensland was the son of Francis Cooper, a squatter, and was born at Willeroo station, Lake George, New South Wales, on 12 May 1848. He was educated at the Sydney Grammar School and the university of Sydney, where he won the… …   Dictionary of Australian Biography

• HANSON, Sir Richard Davies (1805-1876) — premier and chief justice of South Australia was born at London on 6 December 1805. He was the second son of R. Hanson, a fruit merchant and importer, and was educated at a private school in Cambridgeshire. In 1828 he was admitted to practise as… …   Dictionary of Australian Biography

• summing-up — plural summings up n a statement giving the main facts but not the details of something, especially made by a judge at the end of a ↑trial ▪ In his summing up, the judge said that it was dangerous to convict on this evidence alone. →sum up(2) …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• summing-up — noun plural summings up (C) a statement giving the main facts but not the details of something, especially made by a judge at the end of a trial 1 (1): In his summing up, the judge said it was dangerous to convict on this evidence alone. see also …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• summing-up — UK [ˌsʌmɪŋ ˈʌp] / US noun [countable] Word forms summing up : singular summing up plural summings up legal a) a statement made by a lawyer or judge that gives a summary of the evidence in a case b) a statement in which someone gives a short… …   English dictionary