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SUMMARYAs a noun, an abridgment; brief; compendium; digest; also a short application to a court or judge, without the formality of a full proceeding. As an adjective, short; concise; immediate; peremptory; off-hand; without a jury; provisional; statutory. The term as used in connection with legal proceedings means a short, concise, and immediate proceeding. A summary judgment is a final decision in a civil action that does not involve lengthy presentations of evidence. It totally circumvents the need for trial because there is no genuine issue of fact concerning specified questions in the lawsuit that must be decided. In such an action, the party who believes that she is entitled to prevail as a matter of law makes a motion for summary judgment. In deciding such a motion, the court considers the entire record of the case and, if the evidence warrants it, can even grant a summary judgment to the party who did not ask for it. Summary judgment is governed in federal courts by the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and in state courts by state codes of civil procedure. |
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"Summary." West's Encyclopedia of American Law. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Summary." West's Encyclopedia of American Law. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3437704242.html "Summary." West's Encyclopedia of American Law. 2005. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3437704242.html |
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"Summary." Fly Fishing: The Lifetime Sport. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Summary." Fly Fishing: The Lifetime Sport. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2838800175.html "Summary." Fly Fishing: The Lifetime Sport. 2005. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2838800175.html |
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sum·ma·ry / ˈsəmərē/ • n. (pl. -ries) a brief statement or account of the main points of something: a summary of Chapter Three. • adj. 1. dispensing with needless details or formalities; brief: summary financial statements. 2. Law (of a judicial process) conducted without the customary legal formalities: summary arrest. ∎ (of a conviction) made by a judge or magistrate without a jury. PHRASES: in summary in short: in summary, there is no clear case for one tax system compared to another.DERIVATIVES: sum·mar·i·ly / səˈme(ə)rəlē; ˈsəmərəlē/ adv. sum·mar·i·ness / səˈmerēnis/ n. |
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"summary." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "summary." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-summary.html "summary." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-summary.html |
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SummaryThe most common error is to over-do the retrieve by making the motions excessively fast and long. Insects are small and their motions are subtle; moreover, they proceed for shorter distances and at a slower rate than fishermen envision. Carefully observe the natural insect’s or baitfish’s motions. Copy this action. Most retrieves are best done with a slower-than-you-think rate and distance. Some exceptions are threatened baitfish and adult caddisflies. But most other aquatic foods require subtle retrieves. Many fishermen retrieve their flies in 3 to 4 foot pulls; but the naturals move only an inch or so and cannot possibly swim in sudden 3 foot spurts. Your primary retrieve goal is to copy the naturals’ motions in both rate and distance. |
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"Summary." Fly Fishing: The Lifetime Sport. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Summary." Fly Fishing: The Lifetime Sport. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2838800119.html "Summary." Fly Fishing: The Lifetime Sport. 2005. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2838800119.html |
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T. F. HOAD. "summary." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. T. F. HOAD. "summary." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O27-summary.html T. F. HOAD. "summary." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O27-summary.html |
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•beery, bleary, cheery, dearie, dreary, Dun Laoghaire, eerie, eyrie (US aerie), Kashmiri, leery, peri, praemunire, query, smeary, teary, theory, weary
•Deirdre • incendiary • intermediary
•subsidiary
•auxiliary, ciliary, domiciliary
•apiary • topiary • farriery • furriery
•justiciary
•bestiary, vestiary
•breviary • aviary • hosiery
•diary, enquiry, expiry, fiery, friary, inquiry, miry, priory, spiry, wiry
•podiatry, psychiatry
•dowry, floury, flowery, loury, showery, towery
•brewery • jewellery (US jewelry)
•curie, de jure, fioriture, fury, houri, Jewry, jury, Manipuri, Missouri, moory, Newry, tandoori, Urey
•statuary • actuary • sanctuary
•obituary • sumptuary • voluptuary
•January • electuary • ossuary
•mortuary
•Bradbury, Cadbury
•blackberry, hackberry
•cranberry • waxberry
•Barbary, barberry
•Shaftesbury • raspberry
•bayberry, blaeberry
•Avebury • Aylesbury • Sainsbury
•bilberry, tilbury
•bribery
•corroboree, jobbery, robbery, slobbery, snobbery
•dogberry • Roddenberry • Fosbury
•strawberry • Salisbury
•crowberry, snowberry
•chokeberry
•Rosebery, Shrewsbury
•blueberry, dewberry
•Dewsbury • Bloomsbury • gooseberry
•blubbery, rubbery, shrubbery
•Sudbury • mulberry • huckleberry
•Bunbury • husbandry • loganberry
•Canterbury • Glastonbury
•Burberry, turbary
•hatchery • archery
•lechery, treachery
•stitchery, witchery
•debauchery • butchery • camaraderie
•cindery, tindery
•industry • dromedary • lapidary
•spidery • bindery • doddery
•quandary • powdery • boundary
•bouldery • embroidery
•prudery, rudery
•do-goodery • shuddery • thundery
•prebendary • legendary • secondary
•amphorae • wafery
•midwifery, periphery
•infantry • housewifery • spoofery
•puffery • sulphury (US sulfury)
•Calgary
•beggary, Gregory
•vagary
•piggery, priggery, whiggery
•brigandry • bigotry • allegory
•vinegary • category • subcategory
•hoggery, toggery
•pettifoggery • demagoguery
•roguery • sugary
•buggery, skulduggery, snuggery, thuggery
•Hungary • humbuggery
•ironmongery • lingerie • treasury
•usury • menagerie • pageantry
•Marjorie • kedgeree • gingery
•imagery • orangery • savagery
•forgery • soldiery • drudgery
•perjury, surgery
•microsurgery
•hackery, quackery, Thackeray, Zachary
•mountebankery • knick-knackery
•gimcrackery • peccary • grotesquerie
•bakery, fakery, jacquerie
•chickaree, chicory, hickory, Terpsichore, trickery
•whiskery • apothecary
•crockery, mockery, rockery
•falconry • jiggery-pokery
•cookery, crookery, rookery
•brusquerie
•puckery, succory
•cuckoldry
•calorie, gallery, Malory, salary, Valerie
•saddlery • balladry • gallantry
•kilocalorie • diablerie • chandlery
•harlotry • celery • pedlary
•exemplary
•helotry, zealotry
•nailery, raillery
•Tuileries
•ancillary, artillery, capillary, codicillary, distillery, fibrillary, fritillary, Hilary, maxillary, pillory
•mamillary • tutelary • corollary
•bardolatry, hagiolatry, iconolatry, idolatry
•cajolery, drollery
•foolery, tomfoolery
•constabulary, vocabulary
•scapulary • capitulary • formulary
•scullery • jugglery • cutlery
•chancellery • epistolary • burglary
•mammary • fragmentary
•passementerie • flimflammery
•armory, armoury, gendarmerie
•almonry
•emery, memory
•creamery • shimmery • primary
•rosemary • yeomanry
•parfumerie, perfumery
•flummery, Montgomery, mummery, summary, summery
•gossamery • customary • infirmary
•cannery, granary, tannery
•canonry
•antennary, bimillenary, millenary, venery
•tenantry • chicanery
•beanery, bicentenary, catenary, centenary, deanery, greenery, machinery, plenary, scenery, senary, septenary
•disciplinary, interdisciplinary
•hymnary • missionary
•ordinary, subordinary
•valetudinary • imaginary • millinery
•culinary • seminary • preliminary
•luminary • urinary • veterinary
•mercenary • sanguinary
•binary, finery, pinery, quinary, vinery, winery
•Connery • Conakry • ornery • joinery
•buffoonery, poltroonery, sublunary, superlunary
•gunnery, nunnery
•consuetudinary • visionary
•exclusionary • legionary • pulmonary
•coronary • reactionary • expansionary
•concessionary, confessionary, discretionary
•confectionery, insurrectionary, lectionary
•deflationary, inflationary, probationary, stationary, stationery
•expeditionary, petitionary, prohibitionary, traditionary, transitionary
•dictionary • cautionary
•ablutionary, counter-revolutionary, devolutionary, elocutionary, evolutionary, revolutionary, substitutionary
•functionary
•diversionary, reversionary
•fernery, quaternary, ternary
•peppery • extempore • weaponry
•apery, drapery, japery, napery, papery, vapoury (US vapory)
•frippery, slippery
•coppery, foppery
•popery • dupery • trumpery
•February • heraldry • knight-errantry
•arbitrary • registrary • library
•contrary • horary • supernumerary
•itinerary • honorary • funerary
•contemporary, extemporary, temporary
•literary • brasserie • chancery
•accessory, intercessory, pessary, possessory, tesserae
•dispensary, incensory, ostensory, sensory, suspensory
•tracery
•pâtisserie, rotisserie
•emissary • dimissory
•commissary, promissory
•janissary • necessary • derisory
•glossary • responsory • sorcery
•grocery • greengrocery
•delusory, illusory
•compulsory • vavasory • adversary
•anniversary, bursary, cursory, mercery, nursery
•haberdashery
•evidentiary, penitentiary, plenipotentiary, residentiary
•beneficiary, fishery, judiciary
•noshery • gaucherie • fiduciary
•luxury • tertiary
•battery, cattery, chattery, flattery, tattery
•factory, manufactory, olfactory, phylactery, refractory, satisfactory
•artery, martyry, Tartary
•mastery, plastery
•directory, ex-directory, interjectory, rectory, refectory, trajectory
•peremptory
•alimentary, complementary, complimentary, documentary, elementary, parliamentary, rudimentary, sedimentary, supplementary, testamentary
•investigatory
•adulatory, aleatory, approbatory, celebratory, clarificatory, classificatory, commendatory, congratulatory, consecratory, denigratory, elevatory, gyratory, incantatory, incubatory, intimidatory, modificatory, participatory, placatory, pulsatory, purificatory, reificatory, revelatory, rotatory
•natatory • elucidatory • castigatory
•mitigatory • justificatory
•imprecatory • equivocatory
•flagellatory • execratory • innovatory
•eatery, excretory
•glittery, jittery, skittery, twittery
•benedictory, contradictory, maledictory, valedictory, victory
•printery, splintery
•consistory, history, mystery
•presbytery
•inhibitory, prohibitory
•hereditary • auditory • budgetary
•military, paramilitary
•solitary • cemetery • limitary
•vomitory • dormitory • fumitory
•interplanetary, planetary, sanitary
•primogenitary • dignitary
•admonitory, monitory
•unitary • monetary • territory
•secretary • undersecretary
•plebiscitary • repository • baptistery
•transitory
•depositary, depository, expository, suppository
•niterie
•Godwottery, lottery, pottery, tottery
•bottomry • watery • psaltery
•coterie, notary, protonotary, rotary, votary
•upholstery
•bijouterie, charcuterie, circumlocutory
•persecutory • statutory • salutary
•executory
•contributory, retributory, tributary
•interlocutory
•buttery, fluttery
•introductory • adultery • effrontery
•perfunctory • blustery • mediatory
•retaliatory • conciliatory • expiatory
•denunciatory, renunciatory
•appreciatory, depreciatory
•initiatory, propitiatory
•dietary, proprietary
•extenuatory
•mandatary, mandatory
•predatory • sedentary • laudatory
•prefatory • offertory • negatory
•obligatory
•derogatory, interrogatory, supererogatory
•nugatory
•expurgatory, objurgatory, purgatory
•precatory
•explicatory, indicatory, vindicatory
•confiscatory, piscatory
•dedicatory • judicatory
•qualificatory • pacificatory
•supplicatory
•communicatory, excommunicatory
•masticatory • prognosticatory
•invocatory • obfuscatory
•revocatory • charlatanry
•depilatory, dilatory, oscillatory
•assimilatory • consolatory
•voluntary • emasculatory
•ejaculatory
•ambulatory, circumambulatory, perambulatory
•regulatory
•articulatory, gesticulatory
•manipulatory • copulatory
•expostulatory • circulatory
•amatory, declamatory, defamatory, exclamatory, inflammatory, proclamatory
•crematory • segmentary
•lachrymatory
•commentary, promontory
•informatory, reformatory
•momentary
•affirmatory, confirmatory
•explanatory • damnatory
•condemnatory
•cosignatory, signatory
•combinatory
•discriminatory, eliminatory, incriminatory, recriminatory
•comminatory • exterminatory
•hallucinatory • procrastinatory
•monastery • repertory
•emancipatory • anticipatory
•exculpatory, inculpatory
•declaratory, preparatory
•respiratory • perspiratory
•vibratory
•migratory, transmigratory
•exploratory, laboratory, oratory
•inauguratory • adjuratory
•corroboratory • reverberatory
•refrigeratory • compensatory
•desultory • dysentery
•exhortatory, hortatory
•salutatory • gustatory • lavatory
•inventory
•conservatory, observatory
•improvisatory
•accusatory, excusatory
•lathery
•feathery, heathery, leathery
•dithery, slithery
•carvery
•reverie, severy
•Avery, bravery, knavery, quavery, Savery, savory, savoury, slavery, wavery
•thievery
•livery, quivery, shivery
•silvery
•ivory, salivary
•ovary
•discovery, recovery
•servery • equerry • reliquary
•antiquary • cassowary • stipendiary
•colliery • pecuniary • chinoiserie
•misery • wizardry • citizenry
•advisory, provisory, revisory, supervisory
•causerie, rosary
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"summary." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "summary." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-summary.html "summary." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-summary.html |
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