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Summary (law)
Summary (law): summary abatement, removal of a nuisance without judicial proceedings, sometimes without notice or hearing, grounded in common law and Lawton v. Steele, distinguished from administrative abatement.
Summary execution
Summary execution: killing as punishment without full due process, defined by UN Special Rapporteur Amos Wako, prohibited by the 1989 UN Principles on extra-legal, arbitrary and summary executions, with no superior-orders defense in war or emergency.
Summary judgment
Summary judgment: a civil procedure deciding a claim or issue without trial. U.S. federal Rule 56 requires no genuine dispute of material fact; UK CPR Part 24 uses the no-real-prospect test.
Summary Jurisdiction Act 1884
Summary Jurisdiction Act 1884 (47 & 48 Vict. c. 43), also the Summary Jurisdiction (Repeal) Act 1884: UK act of 7 August 1884 repealing obsolete pre-1884 procedure statutes for England and Wales and clarifying the definition of a court of summary jurisdiction.
Summary of Decameron tales
Summary of Decameron tales: day-by-day overview of Boccaccio's Decameron (Decameròn, Prencipe Galeotto), 100 novelle told over ten days by seven women and three men fleeing the 1348 plague, with day themes and famous tales.
Summary offence
A summary offence is a minor criminal offence tried only by a magistrate without a jury, as in England and Wales magistrates' courts, Canada's summary conviction offences, and Australia's Local Courts, with six-month prosecution time limits and reduced police powers.
Summation
Summation is the operation of adding a sequence of numbers or terms to produce a total called a sum, written compactly with sigma notation introduced by Euler in 1755.
Summation (neurophysiology)
Summation (neurophysiology): the combining of postsynaptic potentials in a neuron, via temporal summation from one input over time and spatial summation from multiple inputs, read out at the axon hillock; dendrites add linear, sublinear, and supralinear modes.
Summation by parts
Summation by parts (SBP) is a discrete analog of integration by parts: identities and finite-difference operators that shift a difference between factors, leaving boundary terms, used to prove stability.
Summative assessment
Summative assessment, also called assessment of learning, is the evaluation of student learning at the end of a course or school year, used for grades, promotion, and certification.
Summer
Summer is the warmest of the four temperate seasons, occurring when a hemisphere tilts toward the Sun; it spans June to August in the Northern Hemisphere.
Summer (Calvin Harris song)
"Summer" is a 2014 dance single by Scottish DJ Calvin Harris, written and produced by Harris (Adam Wiles), who sings on it for the first time since "Feel So Close"; it topped the UK chart and led his fourth album.
Summer and Autumn Flowers
Summer and Autumn Flowers (夏秋草図屏風) is a pair of two-panel folding screens of summer and autumn grasses on a silver ground, painted by Sakai Hōitsu around 1821.
Summer Bay
Summer Bay is the fictional New South Wales seaside town setting of the Seven Network soap opera Home and Away (since 1988), with exteriors filmed at Palm Beach, Sydney, 41 km from the CBD; nearby fictional towns include Yabbie Creek and Mangrove River.
Summer biathlon
Summer biathlon is the family of warm-weather biathlon formats combining endurance racing with .22 rifle or laser shooting, using roller skis, running shoes, or mountain bikes.
Summer biathlon world championships
IBU Summer Biathlon World Championships, the off-season biathlon title event, first held 1996 in Hochfilzen as running-and-shooting, rollerski-only since Duszniki Zdroj 2010, now biennial with Super Sprint, Sprint, and Pursuit.
Summer Bishil
Summer Bishil (Summer Yasmine Bishil), American actress born 1988 in Pasadena, California; breakout as Jasira in Towelhead (Independent Spirit Award nomination), best known as Margo Hanson on Syfy's The Magicians (2015–2020).
Summer Breeze (song)
"Summer Breeze" is a 1972 soft rock song by Seals & Crofts that became their commercial breakthrough; the Isley Brothers' funk-soul cover charted higher in Britain.
Summer Britcher
Summer Britcher (born 1994, Baltimore) is an American luger, four-time Winter Olympian (2014, 2018, 2022, 2026) and 2012 Youth Olympic team relay gold medalist, with a USA Luge-record seven World Cup singles wins.
Summer camp
Summer camp: supervised youth programs during summer break, day or residential; a largely North American invention traced to Frederick W. Gunn's 1861 Connecticut outing, first commercialized at Camp Chocorua in 1881.
Summer Camp Island
Summer Camp Island is a Cartoon Network animated series (2018-2023) created by Julia Pott about best friends Oscar and Hedgehog at a magical camp run by teen witches; 100 episodes, six seasons, Emmy and GLAAD-nominated, later removed from HBO Max.
Summer Camp Music Festival 2016 (festival)
The Summer Camp Music Festival 2016 was the 16th annual edition, held May 27–29 at Three Sisters Park in Chillicothe, Illinois, headlined by Umphrey's McGee and moe.
Summer Catch
Summer Catch is a 2001 Warner Bros. romantic baseball comedy directed by Michael Tollin, starring Freddie Prinze Jr. and Jessica Biel, set around the Chatham A's of the Cape Cod Baseball League; it earned $19.7 million and poor reviews (Metascore 21, 8% on Rotten Tomatoes).
Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!)
Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!) is the Beach Boys' ninth studio album, released 1965 on Capitol; peaked at US Number 2, its highest-charting original studio album, with "Help Me, Rhonda" and "California Girls".
Summer fallow
Summer fallow is a dryland farming practice in which cropland is left unplanted for a growing season so rainfall is stored in the soil for the following year's crop.
Summer Flowers
Summer Flowers (Natsu no hana, 夏の花) is a 1947 short story by Japanese writer Hara Tamiki, recording his experience of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
Summer Fun Park Fiss
Summer Fun Park Fiss (Sommer-Funpark Fiss) is a family amusement park at the Möseralm, 1,812 m above Fiss, Tyrol, Austria, run by Fisser Bergbahnen. Known for the Fisser Flitzer toboggan run, Fisser Flieger, and Skyswing, open mid-June to mid-October.
Summer Glau
Summer Glau (Summer Lyn Glau, born 1981, San Antonio) is an American actress and former ballerina known as River Tam in Firefly and Serenity and as the Terminator Cameron Phillips in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles; she voiced River Tam in the announced animated Firefly revival.
Summer Heights High
Summer Heights High is an Australian mockumentary comedy series (ABC TV, 2007; HBO/BBC 2008) created by and starring Chris Lilley as three characters, Jonah Takalua, Ja'mie King, and Mr G, filmed at a real Melbourne high school, averaging 1.3 million viewers and winning AFI and Logie awards.
Summer House (2017 TV series)
Summer House is a Bravo reality series premiering January 9, 2017, produced by Truly Original, following New York friends sharing a Hamptons summer house on weekends; ten seasons, 172 episodes, the Scamanda season 10 scandal, and Martha's Vineyard and In The City spinoffs.