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1A note inserted at the head of an article, reported law case, or other document, summarizing or commenting on the content.
‘In an effort to unify the collection, Hansen provides a headnote to each of the pieces.’
‘Forrest-Thomson's ‘Cordelia’ mentions him by name; Tuma's headnotes or footnotes note Prynne's influence on perhaps a dozen others.’
‘The catchwords in the headnote say it all really.’
‘Salter accounts for most of the music in the first headnote, with only Sherlock Holmes and The Voice of Terror written by Skinner.’
‘It's all footnotes, random thoughts, tiny paragraphs, short sentences, more footnotes, some headnotes, and more random thoughts.’
‘Wishing to be sensitive to this complexity, I have not imposed uniform terms in my headnotes or introductions.’
‘This anthology of documents, along with extensive headnotes, has an ambitious purpose - indeed, more than one.’
‘One sees that very clearly in the headnote at page 408, the first two holdings.’
‘In fact, headnotes, sidebars, and chapter introductions do a lot more to separate the good cookbooks from the bad than recipes.’
‘Since I had had my own doubts over ‘London’ I swallowed my scorn and sent off my preliminary selection: ten from Innocence, six from Experience, and three others, with headnotes and annotations on words not every kid might know.’
‘We can see from this post, that I didn't: I simply read the headnote.’
‘She does much the same thing, too, in her brief but lucid headnotes to the varied selections.’
1.1Law A summary of a decided case prefixed to the case report, setting out the principles behind the decision and an outline of the facts.
‘The majority decision on the question of the scope of the brokers duty is, I think, well summarised in the headnote to the report.’
‘The relevant parts of the decision are, I think, accurately represented by the first two and fourth paragraphs of the headnote as follows.’
‘It is sufficient to quote the summary of the decision which is given in the headnote in these terms.’
‘The following summary of facts in that case is as they appear in the headnote of the unreported version, pp. 1-2.’
‘I will not quote them verbatim, because they appear to me to be admirably and correctly encapsulated in paragraph 2 of the headnote to the report, which I do quote.’