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.

The state or condition of being summary.

plural of summary

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

(law, Britain, Australia, Canada, Hong Kong) A crime in some common law jurisdictions that can be proceeded against summarily, without the right to a jury trial and/or indictment, as required for an indictable offence.

(business) A short document that summarizes all the reports of a company, or the contents of a longer report to which it is attached.

(business) A document that summarizes all the reports of a company in a readable fashion; an executive summary.

(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.