BRIEF

in law, signifies an abridgment of the client's case, made out for the instruction of coimsel on a trial. In this the case of the party is to be concisely but fully stated; the proofs are to be placed in due order, and proper answers made to whatever may be objected against the cause of the client. In preparing the brief, great care is requisite that no omi ion be made which may endanger the case.