Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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digest
n. 1. An index of legal propositions showing which cases support each proposition; a collection of summaries of reported cases, arranged by subject and subdivided by jurisdiction and court. 0 The chief purpose of a digest is to make the contents of reports available and to separate, from the great mass of caselaw, those cases bearing on some specific point. The American Digest System covers the decisions of all American courts of last resort, state and federal, from 1658 to present. - Abbr. D."An important and numerous class of books included in the general division designated as books of secondary authority is the group known by the generic name of Digests.' A Digest is essentially an index to Cases. But it is much more than an ordinary index, for it indicates the holdings and (in some, though not all, publications) the facts of each case. Any particular digest is a summary of the case law coming wi
digesta; digests
See PANDECT.
textbook digest
A legal text whose aim is to set forth the law of a subject in condensed form, with little or no criticism or discussion of the authorities cited, and no serious attempt to explain or reconcile apparently conflicting decisions.
undigested offering
A public offering of securities that remain unsold because there is insufficient demand at the offered price.