bill of review
- noun
- Formal
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recurso de revisión
- The losing party filed a bill of review to challenge the judge's decision.
Examples
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A bill of review must present new evidence or legal errors in the original decree.
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Lawyers discussed whether a bill of review could overturn the previous verdict.
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The lawyer filed a bill of review yesterday.
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Can you explain what a bill of review is?
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The losing party filed a bill of review to challenge the judge's decision.
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Lawyers discussed whether a bill of review could overturn the previous verdict.
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A bill of review must present new evidence or legal errors in the original decree.
Synonyms
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7.4
A new court meeting that looks at a case again after a decision has been made
Surface Forms
Morphology
The components 'bill' (a formal written document/request) and 'review' (an examination) make it partly interpretable as a written request for an examination or reconsideration, so a learner could guess the general idea. However, the specific legal sense — a procedural remedy to alter or reverse a decree by the same court — is specialized and not fully predictable from the parts (and 'bill' is ambiguous between legislative and legal petition senses), so full understanding at B1 is unlikely.
Etymology
The legal term bill of review comes from old law where a bill was a written request and review meant 'to look again' at a judge's decision. So, a bill of review is a written request asking the same court to explain or change its own decision.