QUESTION-AND-ANSWER

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QUESTION-AND-ANSWER

question-and-answer.

1. The portion of a deposition or trial transcript in which evidence is developed through a series of questions asked by the lawyer and answered by the witness. ¡ª Abbr. Q-and-A.

2. The method for developing evidence during a deposition or at trial, requiring the witness to answer the examining lawyer’s questions, without offering unsolicited information. [Cases: Witnesses 236, 247. C.J.S. Witnesses ¡ì¡ì 406, 429.]

3. The method of instruction used in many law-school classes, in which the professor asks questions of one or more students and then follows up each answer with another question. ¡ª Also termed Socratic method. See SOCRATIC METHOD.

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