Concise, brief or presented in a condensed form / Performed speedily and without formal ceremony. / (law) Performed by skipping the procedures of a standard and fair trial.

An abstract or a condensed presentation of the substance of a body of material.

To summarize; as a summary.

plural of summary

The state or condition of being summary.

plural of summary judgment

(law) The determination by a court that no factual issues are in dispute, and that the legal issues require the case to be decided in favor of one party or the other.

(law) Certain statutory remedies taken without the formal bringing of an action by process and pleading.

plural of summary offence

(Scotland, law) The process by which execution may proceed without the need of further application to the court, in the case of bonds and other instruments registered for execution.