Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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in limine
adv. [Latin "at the outset"] Preliminarily; presented to only the judge, before or during trial < a question to be decided in limine>. See MOTION IN LIMINE.
motion in limine
A pretrial request that certain inadmissible evidence not be referred to or offered at trial. ( Typically, a party makes this motion when it believes that mere mention of the evidence during trial would be highly prejudicial and could not be remedied by an instruction to disregard. If, after the motion is granted, the opposing party mentions or attempts to offer the evidence in the jury's presence, a mistrial may be ordered. A ruling on a motion in limine does not preserve evidentiary error for appellate purposes. Instead, to raise such an error on appeal, a party must have formally objected when the evidence was actually admitted or excluded during trial.