"summing up" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1922, Robert Stewart Sutliffe, Impressions of an Average Juryman, New York, N.Y.: Herbert H. Foster, page 36",
          "text": "SOME SUMMING UPS / A lawyer’s opening address is properly a short talk to arouse interest in a selling proposition, the evidence is the sample and the summing up a final effort to close the sale.",
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          "text": "What the English call in their courts the trial judge’s “summing up” we call in our country the “charge to the jury.” […] When I have contrasted the exercise of this judicial function, as I have been reading summing ups and charges to the jury, the superiority of the summing up of the British judge over the charge to the jury of the American judge for all beneficial purposes has been clearly seen.",
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