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nouna 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 errorstype of:
Definition that contains retrial
- discovery (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
- deposition (law) a pretrial interrogation of a witness; usually conducted in a lawyer's office