Similar words: settlement, settlement house, battlement, battlements, contempt of court, entitlement, gentlemen, out of control. Meaning: n. resolution of a dispute prior to the rendering of a final decision by the trial court.
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(1) Lawyers are seeking an out-of-court settlement.
(2) She accepted an out-of-court settlement of ￡4,000.
(3) They reached an out-of-court settlement.
(4) He received an out-of-court settlement last year.
(5) South Yorkshire police yesterday awarded Mr Long an out-of-court settlement before the case reached Sheffield high court.
(6) But Education Department lawyers made the out-of-court settlement and agreed to pay his ￡12,000 costs.
(7) An amicable out-of-court settlement is always the best and least expensive way to settle a dispute.
(8) Infringements can be dealt with by an out-of-court settlement or if necessary by civil proceedings.
(9) The advantages of trying to obtain an out-of-court settlement at a relatively early stage in the proceedings are therefore obvious.
(10) The army denied liability but agreed on an out-of-court settlement.
(11) They are hoping to reach an out-of-court settlement.
(12) In April, Google reached an out-of-court settlement with a US policy group over its rollout of Google Buzz, a previous social effort.
(13) In 1994 the singer reached an out-of-court settlement with the family of an 11-year-old boy.
(14) Out-of-court settlement is specially appropriate as applied to disputes that are resolved instituting litigation.
(15) UBS and the US government yesterday agreed an out-of-court settlement to resolve one of the most bitter assaults on Switzerland's hallowed bank secrecy.
(16) Legal experts said her case would not set a precedent because it was an out-of-court settlement.
(17) The company paid out over $10 million in an out-of-court settlement .
(18) The women, who were on legal aid, were offered an out-of-court settlement which would have barely covered their legal fees.
(19) Speaking in a teleconference with the judge presiding over the case, Gibson asked for the trial to be delayed another week to give negotiators time to strike a definitive out-of-court settlement.
(20) The court ruling over bail comes as union officials say that management of Collum is in secret talks with families of the victims for an out-of-court settlement.
(21) The detainees were among about a dozen former prisoners who would be granted an out-of-court settlement[sentence dictionary], according to the BBC.
(22) In his opening statement to the committee Coulson also said he was unaware the paper's publisher, News International, had reached an out-of-court settlement with Gordon Taylor.
(23) Liu said the parents were hoping to hurt the dairy producer that sold them contaminated milk, but accepted that an out-of-court settlement might also ensue.
(24) He said he had 'no intention' of negotiating an out-of-court settlement.
(25) It goes against the general trend towards counselling, mediation and out-of-court settlement.
(26) But, she did point to a 2009 story in the Guardian newspaper about an out-of-court settlement with an alleged phone-hack victim.
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