Motion (legal)
In United States law, a motion is a procedural device to bring a limited, contested issue before a court for decision. A motion may be thought of as a request to the judge (or judges) to make a decision about the case. Motions may be made at any point in administrative, criminal or civil proceedings, although that right is regulated by court rules which vary from place to place. The party requesting the motion may be called the movant, or may simply be the moving party. The party opposing the motion is the nonmovant or nonmoving party.
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“Two children, all alone and no one by,
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Of motion lightly threaded with nimble feet
Dance sedately; face to face they gaze,
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—Laurence Binyon (1869–1943)