Brief

Short in duration.

Concise; terse; succinct.

Rife; common; prevalent.

Briefly.

Soon; quickly.

A short concise writing or letter; a statement in few words.

An epitome.

An abridgment or concise statement of a client's case, made out for the instruction of counsel in a trial at law. This word is applied also to a statement of the heads or points of a law argument.

A writ; a breve. See Breve, n., 2.

A writ issuing from the chancery, directed to any judge ordinary, commanding and authorizing that judge to call a jury to inquire into the case, and upon their verdict to pronounce sentence.

A letter patent, from proper authority, authorizing a collection or charitable contribution of money in churches, for any public or private purpose.

To make an abstract or abridgment of; to shorten; as, to brief pleadings.

a document stating the facts and points of law of a client's case