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Definition of Cross-examiner
1. Noun. Someone who questions a witness carefully (especially about testimony given earlier).
Generic synonyms: Asker, Enquirer, Inquirer, Querier, Questioner
Derivative terms: Cross Examine, Cross Question
Definition of Cross-examiner
1. Noun. A person who carries out a cross-examination ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cross-examiner
Literary usage of Cross-examiner
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Forensic Oratory: A Manual for Advocates by William Callyhan Robinson (1893)
"Cross-Examination: Manner of the Cross-Examiner. Finally, the manner of the
cross-examiner should be suited to the work in which he is engaged. ..."
2. Commentaries on the Law of Evidence in Civil Cases by Burr W. Jones, Louis Horwitz (1914)
"Partiality of witness relevant—On that subject cross-examiner not concluded by
answer—Bias— Hostility—Interest—State of feeling, etc. ..."
3. Lincoln the Lawyer by Frederick Trevor Hill (1913)
"XX THE cross-examiner were no official shorthand writers .i- in the courts while
Lincoln practised,1 and the lawyers took their own notes of the testimony ..."
4. The Law of Evidence in Civil Cases by Burr W. Jones (1908)
"Partiality of witness relevant—On that subject cross-examiner not concluded by
answer—Bias—Hostility—Interest—State of feel- Ing, etc. ..."
5. A Treatise on General Practice: Containing Rules and Suggestions for the by Byron Kosciusko Elliott, William Frederick Elliott (1894)
"The cross-examiner enters upon his work from a point almost opposite that at ...
But the cross-examiner is not to presume that in every case the witness who ..."
6. Outlines of Criminal Law: Based on Lectures Delivered in the University of by Courtney Stanhope Kenny (1907)
"Thus, if the cross-examiner has asked, " Didn't you once assault a neighbour ?"
the re-examiner may ask, " What had your neighbour done to you that made you ..."
7. Current Law (1904)
"A large latitude is allowed the cross-examiner in testing the probability of the
... A cross-examiner may not require surrender to him of letters and notes ..."
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