Crossword clues for rebuttal
rebuttal
- Debate segment
- Lawyer's argument
- (law) a pleading by the defendant in reply to a plaintiff's surrejoinder
- The act of refuting by offering a contrary contention or argument
- Counterstatement
- Contradiction’s genuine about object of ridicule
- Refutation, contradiction
- Denial of strike from head: actual lines
- Thick end in actual counterargument
- Target of ridicule in genuine denial
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rebuttal \Re*but"tal\ (r[-e]*b[u^]t"tal), n. (Law) The giving of evidence on the part of a plaintiff to destroy the effect of evidence introduced by the defendant in the same suit.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of refuting something by making a contrary argument, or presenting contrary evidence. 2 A statement, designed to refute or negate specific arguments put forward by opponents. 3 (context legal English) A pleading by a defendant in reply to the evidence put forward by a plaintiff or the prosecution.
WordNet
n. the speech act of refuting by offering a contrary contention or argument
(law) a pleading by the defendant in reply to a plaintiff's surrejoinder [syn: rebutter]
Wikipedia
In law, rebuttal is a form of evidence that is presented to contradict or nullify other evidence that has been presented by an adverse party. By analogy the same term is used in politics and public affairs to refer to the informal process by which statements, designed to refute or negate specific arguments put forward by opponents, are deployed in the media.
In law, special rules apply to rebuttal; rebuttal evidence or rebuttal witnesses must be confined solely to the subject matter of the evidence rebutted. New evidence on other subjects may not be brought in rebuttal. However, rebuttal is one of the few vehicles whereby a party may introduce surprise evidence or witnesses. The basic process is as follows: both sides of a controversy are obliged to declare in advance of trial what witnesses they plan to call, and what each witness is expected to testify to. When either a plaintiff (or prosecutor) or defendant brings direct evidence or testimony which was not anticipated, the other side may be granted a specific opportunity to rebut it. In rebuttal, the rebutting party may generally bring witnesses and evidence which were never before declared, so long as they serve to rebut the prior evidence.
In policy debate, the rebuttal speeches are the last four speeches who are delivered by the first or second speaker. Unlike the constructive speeches, rebuttal speeches are not followed by a cross-examination period.
In high school, rebuttals are usually 5 minutes long (with the exception of certain states and organizations that use 4 minute rebuttals). In college debate, they are generally 6 minutes.
Rebuttal speeches must address arguments made in the constructive speeches. They generally may not propose new arguments or recover arguments dropped in a team's previous speeches. Teams breaking from this precedent are often met by claims of abuse from opponents.
Usage examples of "rebuttal".
With difficulty Marris swallowed the anger that the remarks ignited within him and focused it into a quiet but ruthless rebuttal which was many times more effective than any ranting denunciation.
So on, assertion, rejoinder, surrejoinder, and rebuttal, till the dispassionate philosopher in the pillows wearied of his conceit and directed his thoughts toward breakfast.
In the meantime, we regret to announce that we have overbooked this rebuttal, and we are asking for readers who are willing to give up their space in exchange for an opportunity to read two future rebuttals on a topic of your choice.
Slowly Youngman led him through a rebuttal of the testimony presented by the prosecution.
As each retort became gruffer, and its consequential rebuttal more to the point, she felt Janet tremble.
And during the next-to-last television debate—when Congressman Borax rose in desperate rebuttal to Clarissima Strunt—Shepherd Mibs at last came into his own.
There was some discussion among the more knowledgeable onlookers of nanocarbon tubes embedded in a bonding ceramic or glass matrix, but the dullish appearance of the intruder’s matte epidermis provided little in the way of support or rebuttal for such theory.
Third had ranted on and on about the dangers of such a concession, then glared at Todd to make the translation of ten minutes of rebuttal.
Taking one thing with another, and allowing four months on the average for each necessary round trip to the West Indies to take evidence on commission, and taking into account demurrers and rebuttals and sur-rebuttals, the Lord Chancellor thinks that it will be thirty-seven years before any case reaches the House of Lords, and he went on to say, cackling into his soup, that our interest in the case will be greatly diminished by then.
His grandmother's anger at his father's mildly delivered rebuttal was such that Rojer strengthened his shields.