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Seriatim

Term · Law · MLC-T-LAW-004489

An adverb meaning point by point, or in a series. In a legal context, it describes the practice of judges in a multi-judge panel each writing and publishing their own individual opinion for a case, rather than the court issuing a single collective opinion. This practice was common in the early history of the U.S. Supreme Court but was largely replaced by the single-opinion practice established by Chief Justice John Marshall.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-LAW-004489
FieldLaw
Record as JSON 
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  "id": "MLC-T-LAW-004489",
  "term": "Seriatim",
  "field": "Law",
  "definition": "An adverb meaning point by point, or in a series. In a legal context, it describes the practice of judges in a multi-judge panel each writing and publishing their own individual opinion for a case, rather than the court issuing a single collective opinion. This practice was common in the early history of the U.S. Supreme Court but was largely replaced by the single-opinion practice established by Chief Justice John Marshall.",
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/law/seriatim/"
}

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