| 单词 | legal proceeding | 
| 释义 | legal proceeding (once / 128471 pages) n WORD FAMILY legal proceedingUSAGE EXAMPLES A spokesman for the company said it “will respond at the appropriate time in the legal proceeding.” Wall Street Journal(Nov 14, 2016) “It’s as close to a legal proceeding that I’ve seen.” Seattle Times(Oct 26, 2016) The long-running television program’s gift for flipping viewer assumptions about an investigation or a legal proceeding is exactly the shocking energy “The Whole Truth” needs. Seattle Times(Oct 20, 2016) n (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked Syn|Hypo|Hyper proceeding, proceedings foreclosure the legal proceedings initiated by a creditor to repossess the collateral for loan that is in defaultintervention (law) a proceeding that permits a person to enter into a lawsuit already in progress; admission of person not an original party to the suit so that person can protect some right or interest that is allegedly affected by the proceedingsprocedure a mode of conducting legal and parliamentary proceedingsaction, action at law, legal action a judicial proceeding brought by one party against another; one party prosecutes another for a wrong done or for protection of a right or for prevention of a wrongcase, causa, cause, lawsuit, suit a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedyadoption a legal proceeding that creates a parent-child relation between persons not related by blood; the adopted child is entitled to all privileges belonging to a natural child of the adoptive parents (including the right to inherit)appeal (law) a legal proceeding in which the appellant resorts to a higher court for the purpose of obtaining a review of a lower court decision and a reversal of the lower court's judgment or the granting of a new trialbankruptcy a legal process intended to insure equality among the creditors of a corporation declared to be insolventreceivership a court action that places property under the control of a receiver during litigation so that it can be preserved for the benefit of alljudicial proceeding, litigation a legal proceeding in a court; a judicial contest to determine and enforce legal rightsnaturalisation, naturalization the proceeding whereby a foreigner is granted citizenshiptrial (law) the determination of a person's innocence or guilt by due process of lawreview (law) a judicial reexamination of the proceedings of a court (especially by an appellate court)hearing (law) a proceeding (usually by a court) where evidence is taken for the purpose of determining an issue of fact and reaching a decision based on that evidencebureaucratic procedure, red tape needlessly time-consuming procedureobjection (law) a procedure whereby a party to a suit says that a particular line of questioning or a particular witness or a piece of evidence or other matter is improper and should not be continued and asks the court to rule on its impropriety or illegalitycivil suit a lawsuit alleging violations of civil law by the defendantclass action, class-action suit a lawsuit brought by a representative member of a large group of people on behalf of all members of the groupcountersuit a suit brought against someone who has sued youcriminal suit a lawsuit alleging violations of criminal law by the defendantmoot a hypothetical case that law students argue as an exercisebastardy proceeding, paternity suit a lawsuit filed to determine the father of a child born out of wedlock (and to provide for the support of the child once paternity is determined)antitrust case a legal action brought against parties who are charged with limiting free competition in the market placecivil action legal action to protect a private civil right or to compel a civil remedy (as distinguished from criminal prosecution)counterclaim a claim filed in opposition to another claim in a legal actioncustody case a legal action to determine custody (usually of children following a divorce)lis pendens a pending lawsuitcustody battle litigation to settle custody of the children of a divorced couplevexatious litigation litigation shown to have been instituted maliciously and without probable causecourt-martial a trial that is conducted by a military courtordeal, trial by ordeal a primitive method of determining a person's guilt or innocence by subjecting the accused person to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under divine control; escape was usually taken as a sign of innocenceScopes trial a highly publicized trial in 1925 when John Thomas Scopes violated a Tennessee state law by teaching evolution in high school; Scopes was prosecuted by William Jennings Bryan and defended by Clarence Darrow; Scopes was convicted but the verdict was later reversedshow trial a trial held for show; the guilt of the accused person has been decided in advancebill of review a proceeding brought to obtain an explanation or an alteration or a reversal of a decree by the court that rendered itjudicial review review by a court of law of actions of a government official or entity or of some other legally appointed person or body or the review by an appellate court of the decision of a trial courtcriminal prosecution, prosecution the institution and conduct of legal proceedings against a defendant for criminal behaviortest case, test suit a representative legal action whose outcome is likely to become a precedentmistrial a trial that is invalid or inconclusiveretrial a new trial in which issues already litigated and to which the court has already rendered a verdict or decision are reexamined by the same court; occurs when the initial trial is found to have been improper or unfair due to procedural errorsadministrative hearing a hearing that takes place outside the judicial process before hearing examiners who have been granted judicial authority specifically for the purpose of conducting such hearingscompetence hearing a hearing to determine legal capacity (to determine whether the defendant can understand the charges and cooperate with a lawyer in preparing a defense)fair hearing a hearing that is granted in extraordinary situations where the normal judicial process would be inadequate to secure due process because the person would be harmed or denied their rights before a judicial remedy became available (as in deportation or loss of welfare benefits)quo warranto a hearing to determine by what authority someone has an office or franchise or liberty due process, due process of law (law) the administration of justice according to established rules and principles; based on the principle that a person cannot be deprived of life or liberty or property without appropriate legal procedures and safeguards | 
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