final statement
Parting declaration made
A final statement is a concluding declaration, often carrying special weight because of its position.
The term appears in legal contexts for a defendant's last words before sentencing, and in accounts of executions: His final statement maintained his innocence.
More broadly, any conclusive remark or document: The report serves as management's final statement on the matter.
- conclusionEnd or deduction
- closing argumentLawyer's final courtroom address
- verdictOfficial court decision
- closingFinal stage of something
- last wordsTerminal utterance
famous last words · summation · ending · farewell · goodbye · ultimatum · pronouncement · judgment · death · last will · eulogy · testament · swan song · curtain call · resolution · decree · climax · parting
- executionexecution, lethal injection, firing squad, gas chamber, electric chair
- farewellsgoodbye, farewell, bye, adieu, bye-bye
- swan songsswan song, last performance, farewell concert, farewell tour, closing act
- diplomacyembassy, ambassador, ambassadors, treaty, treaties
final statementopening statement
First formal address
opening remarks · preamble · preface · prologue · lead-in
final statementopening statement
First formal address
opening argument · arraignment · preliminary hearing · indictment · charge sheet
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