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Gavels are not legally necessary. For those courts and judges who stiill use them, it is usually used to emphasize a point - much like ending a phrase or sentence with a period at the end. These days (in the US) the use of a gavel is dying out and/or falling out of favor.

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Judges do not "hit the gavel." They hit the little round wooden sounding block WITH the gavel.

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