A writ summoning one to answer; an official letter or mandate.
An answer to any action.
A position of interest or advocacy.
An attorney's legal argument in written form for submission to a court.
A short news story or report.
A memorandum of points of fact or of law for use in conducting a case.
The material relevant to a case, delivered by a solicitor to the barrister who is counsel for the case.
A ticket of any type.
A letter patent, from proper authority, authorizing a collection or charitable contribution of money in churches, for any public or private purpose.
A barrister who is counsel for a party in a legal action.
underwear briefs.
To summarize a recent development to some person with decision-making power.
To write a legal argument and submit it to a court.
Of short duration; happening quickly.
Concise; taking few words.
Occupying a small distance, area or spatial extent; short.
A particular posted letter or package which is delivered in this manner; a particular act of conveying such letters or packages to one or more recipients.
A kind of postal service in which, for an extra fee, letters and packages are delivered in a highly expedited manner by a special courier.
Something—whether desirable or undesirable—which is intentionally given to a specific individual or which an individual receives rapidly and unexpectedly; the personalized, direct quality of the transmission of such an item.