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Cross-examination

noun

(law) close questioning of a hostile witness in a court of law to discredit or throw a new light on the testimony already provided in direct examination.

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"Cross-examination" Quotes from Famous Books

... indiscreet remark in regard to his management of my schoolmate's case, although to this day I have never known exactly how Dr. Francis, as our family physician, was involved in the affair. I stood up as bravely as I could under a rigid cross-examination, but, alas! I had no remembrance whatever of making any remark that could possibly offend. At any rate, Dr. Bush had given Dr. Francis to understand that he was ready to settle the affair according to the approved method of the day; ...

— As I Remember - Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century • Marian Gouverneur

... with his father, who sat back in his chair as one may see a leader sit back while his junior counsel conducts an able cross-examination. ...

— The Velvet Glove • Henry Seton Merriman

... unless the case be one of those in which the great majority of individual instances do not differ much from the average. In the case of a witness, persons of common sense would draw their conclusions from the degree of consistency of his statements, his conduct under cross-examination, and the relation of the case itself to his interests, his partialities, and his mental capacity, instead of applying so rude a standard (even if it were capable of being verified) as the ratio between the number of true and the number of erroneous statements ...

— A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive • John Stuart Mill

... imparted by Punch's earliest collaborators, still or till lately living. Of undoubted contributors and their work, it may be stated, more than two hundred and fifty are here dealt with. A further number cheerfully submitted to cross-examination on one or other of the many subjects touched upon; and probably as many more were ...

— The History of "Punch" • M. H. Spielmann

... ordinary course of proceeding it would have been his task to begin by explaining the state of the family, and by assuming that he could prove the former marriage and the existence of the former wife at the time of the latter marriage. His evidence would have been subject to cross-examination, and then another counter-statement would have been made on behalf of the Countess, and her witnesses would have been brought forward. When all this had been done the judge would have charged the jury, and with the jury would have ...

— Lady Anna • Anthony Trollope

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