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Citation sentence

Term · Law · MLC-T-LAW-000985

A sentence in a legal document that consists solely of one or more citations to legal authorities, without any accompanying textual explanation. It serves to provide direct support for a preceding proposition or statement. These sentences are typically placed at the end of a paragraph or after a specific legal assertion.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-LAW-000985
FieldLaw
Record as JSON 
{
  "id": "MLC-T-LAW-000985",
  "term": "Citation sentence",
  "field": "Law",
  "definition": "A sentence in a legal document that consists solely of one or more citations to legal authorities, without any accompanying textual explanation. It serves to provide direct support for a preceding proposition or statement. These sentences are typically placed at the end of a paragraph or after a specific legal assertion.",
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/law/citation-sentence/"
}

Record 809 of 5,439 in Law terminology (MLC-0107). Request the full dataset.