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Rest
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To cease motion, exertion, or labor.

In a lawsuit, a party is said to "rest," or "rest her case," when that party indicates that she has produced all the evidence that she intends to offer at that stage and submits the case either finally, or subject to the right to offer rebutting evidence after her opponent has introduced her evidence.


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It then crashed into a streetlight, a fire hydrant and a building before coming to rest on its roof at Glenoaks and Palm Avenue, police said.
The aircraft landed on the runway, but was unable to stop before departing the runway and coming to rest in a ravine.
Suddenly, her grandmother, Mildred Vickers, lost control of her Chevy Blazer, and the vehicle skidded off the mountain road and rolled over seven or eight times, tumbling down a hill before coming to rest on an old strip-mine site.
 
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