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instruction

n. an explanation of the law governing a case which the judge gives orally to the jury after the attorneys have presented all the evidence and have made final arguments, but before the jury begins deliberations.

instruction

another word, used mainly in the USA, for the judge's CHARGE to a jury.

Collins Dictionary of Law © W.J. Stewart, 2006

INSTRUCTION, French law. This word signifies the means used and formality employed to prepare a case for trial. it is generally applied to criminal cases, and is then called criminal, instruction; it is then defined the acts and proceedings which tend to prove positively a crime or delict, in order to inflict on the guilty person the punishment which he deserves.

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.

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In [7], Krishnaswamy and Gupta enhance the Thumb instruction set by incorporating Augmenting eXtensions (AX) to exploit the property that there exists a Thumb instruction pair that is equivalent to a single ARM instruction.

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I am offering a possible solution to the recurrent problem of defective jury instructions.

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Logically following that offer instruction is instruction 416.9, Revocation of Offer, which is only given if the defendant claims he or she revoked the offer before claimant accepted it.

Florida's new jury instructions in contract and business law cases: a primer

Celce-Murcia, Zoltan, and Thurrell (1998) stressed the importance of direct instruction in improving communicative approaches in language teaching.

The effectiveness of direct instruction in teaching English in elementary public education schools in Kuwait: a research case study

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Science for students with disabilities

Presenting difficult cases early in instruction has also been used, with an assumption that learners benefit from making errors.

Case difficulty of simulation software

In a course with 30 students, that's about three more hours per semester." Hislop believes the misconception may result from the pacing of online instruction: preparation time is significant before the course, but slows throughout the duration.

Faculty issues in online education: a new book examines best practices in managing an online learning program

Traditional instruction is a method rich in structure and content, and is the most desired methods of instructional delivery for tenured university educators; however, this contradicts what is actually being taught to future educators in universities.

Attitudes of under-graduate education majors on web-enhanced and traditional instruction at Fayetteville State University

The traditional mode of individual instruction would need to be modified and perhaps integrated with some small group instruction.

Reshaping dreams: "a life with music" or "a life in music"?

In Experiment 1, four instructional histories were independently trained in a matching-to-sample procedure: (a) After exposure to a true instruction, the instruction changed but remained true (relative to changed contingencies); (b) after exposure to a false instruction, the instruction changed but remained false; (c) after exposure to a true instruction, the instruction changed to false; (d) after exposure to a false instruction, the instruction changed to true.

Interactions of contingencies, instructional accuracy, and instructional history in conditional discrimination

The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (J-8) has announced the signature and approval of the update to the Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System CJCS Instruction 3170.01E and accompanying CJCS Manual 3170.01B.