Try

Definition - Transitive Verb
[Anglo-French trier to choose, sort, ascertain, examine judicially, from Old French, to choose, sort]
1  : to examine or investigate judicially <no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise reexamined in any court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law ­U.S. Constitution amend. VII> <in all actions tried upon the facts without a jury ­Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 52(a)>
2  : to conduct the trial of
: put on trial <if...the judge before whom the defendant has been tried is unable to perform the duties to be performed by the court after a verdict or finding of guilt ­Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure Rule 25(b)>
3  : to participate as lawyer or counsel in the trial of
: bring to trial on behalf of a client <was unqualified to ~ death penalty cases>



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collateral estoppel

estoppel by judgment barring the relitigation of issues litigated by the same parties on a different cause of action


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