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Noun Concept
Categories: Information governance, Discovery (law), Records management
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discovery  Principle of disclosure  Disclosure of evidence  Discovery of documents  Discovery phase of a trial
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(law) compulsory pretrial disclosure of documents relevant to a case; enables one side in a litigation to elicit information from the other side concerning the facts in the case WordNet 3.0
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(law) compulsory pretrial disclosure of documents relevant to a case; enables one side in a litigation to elicit information from the other side concerning the facts in the case WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Discovery, in the law of common law jurisdictions, is a pre-trial procedure in a lawsuit in which each party, through the law of civil procedure, can obtain evidence from the other party or parties by means of discovery devices such as interrogatories, requests for production of documents, requests for admissions and depositions. Wikipedia
A process in courts of law relating to evidence Wikipedia Disambiguation
A pre-trial phase in which evidence is gathered. Wiktionary
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The prosecution moved to suppress certain items turned up during discovery. Wiktionary
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