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judgment
judgment also judge·ment [jəj-mənt] n 1 a : a formal decision or determination on a matter or case by a court ;esp : final judgment in this entry compare dictum, disposition, finding, holding, opinion, ruling, verdict NOTE: Under Rule 54 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure judgment encompasses a decree and any order from which an appeal lies. cog·no·vit judgment [kÄ g-nō-vit-] : an acknowledgment by a debtor of the existence of a debt with agreement that an adverse judgment may be entered without notice or a hearing : confession of judgment consent judgment : a judgment approved and entered by a court by consent of the parties upon agreement or stipulation : consent decree at decree declaratory judgment : a judgment declaring a right or establishing the legal status or interpretation of a law or instrument [seeking a declaratory judgment that the regulation is unconstitutional] compare damage, injunction specific performance at per...
Judgment in rem
Judgment in rem, a judgment in rem is one which declares, defines or otherwise determines the jural relation of a person or thing to the world generally, Satrucharla Vijayarama Raju v. Nirmaka Jaya Raju, (2006) 1 SCC 212.Means a judgment that determines the status or condition of property and that operates directly on the property itself. Also termed in rem judgment, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 847.Judgment in rem is one which declares, defines or otherwise determines the jural relationship of a person or thing to the world generally, Satrucharla Vijaya Rama Raju v. Nirmaka Jaya Raju, 2006 1 SCC 212....
Judgments Extension Act, 1868
Judgments Extension Act, 1868 (English). By this Act (31 & 32 Vict. c. 54) (preserved by the Judicature Act, 1925, s. 224) the judgments of the superior Courts of either England, Scotland, or Northern Ireland may be enforced as judgments in either of the other two countries upon registration (in a prescribed manner) of certificate thereof in the country in which such judgments are sought to been forced. By the Inferior Courts Judgment Extension Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 31), the principle of this Act was, with the limitation of personal service, extended to inferior courts. See INFERIOR COURTS; IRISH JUDGMENTS.Part II. of the (English) Administration of Justice Act, 1920, makes provision of the reciprocal enforce-ment of judgments of superior courts between the United Kingdom and other parts of the Empire. The Act is limited to such parts of His Majesty's Dominions as have been included within its scope by Orders in Council; and by the (English) Foreign Judgments (Reciprocal Enforcem...
Quod recuperet
Quod recuperet [Lat.] [that he do recover (the debt or damages)], a final judgment for a plaintiff in a personal action.Means that he do recover. The ordinary judgment for a plaintiff in an action at law. The judgment might be either final or interlocutory depending on whether damages had been ascertained at the time the judgment was rendered. Also termed judgment quod recuperet, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1263....
Quale jus
Quale jus, a judicial writ, which lay where a man of religion had judgment to recover land, before execution was made of the judgment; it went forth to the escheator between judgment and execution, to inquire what right the religious person had to recover, or whether the judgment were obtained by the collusion of the parties, to the intent that the lord might not be defrauded, Reg. Judic. 8. See 13 Geo. 1, st. 1, c. 32....
ministerial
ministerial 1 : being or having the characteristics of an act or duty prescribed by law as part of the duties of an administrative office 2 : relating to or being an act done after ascertaining the existence of a specified state of facts in obedience to legal and esp. statutory mandate without exercise of personal judgment or discretion see also mandamus compare discretionary ...
Law Reform (UK)
Law Reform (UK). By the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1934 (24 & 25 Geo. 5, c. 41), all causes of action shall with certain exceptions survive on the death (after the 24th July, 1934) of any person against or for the benefit of his estate. See actio personalis, and by s. 1(2) it is enacted:Where a cause of action survives as aforesaid for the benefit of the estate of a deceased person the damages recoverable for the benefit of the estate of that person:-(a) shall not include any exemplary damages;(b) in the case of a breach of promise to marry shall be limited to such damage, if any, to the estate of that person as flows from the breach of promise to marry;(c) where the death of that person has been caused by the act of omission which gives rise to the cause of action, shall be calculated without reference to any loss or gain to his estate consequent on his death, except that a sum in respect of funeral expenses may be included.See Rose v. Ford, (1937) 53 TLR 873.The right...
jurisdiction
jurisdiction [Latin jurisdictio, from juris, genitive of jus law + dictio act of saying, from dicere to say] 1 : the power, right, or authority to interpret, apply, and declare the law (as by rendering a decision) [to be removed to the State having of the crime "U.S. Constitution art. IV"] [a court of competent ] see also situs International Shoe Co. v. Washington in the Important Cases section compare venue NOTE: Jurisdiction determines which court system should properly adjudicate a case. Questions of jurisdiction also arise regarding quasi-judicial bodies (as administrative agencies) in their decision-making capacities. ancillary jurisdiction : jurisdiction giving a court the power to adjudicate claims (as counterclaims and cross-claims) because they arise from a cause of action over which the court has original jurisdiction ;specif : supplemental jurisdiction acquired by a federal court allowing it to adjudicate claims that are based on state law but that form part of a case...
Judge
Judge [fr. juge, Fr.; judex, Lat.], one invested with authority to determine any cause or question in a Court of judicature. The word 'judge' denotes not only every person who is officially designated as a judge but also every person who is empowered by law to give, in any legal proceeding, civil or criminal, definitive judgment, or a judgment which, if not appealed against, would be definitive, or a judgment which, is confirmed by some other authority, would be definitive or who is one of a body of persons which body of persons is em-powered by law to give such a judgement (Indian Penal Code, 1860, s. 19)To secure the dignity and political independence of the judges of the Supreme Court, it is enacted by s. 5 of the (English) Jud. Act, 1875 (replaced by Jud. Act, 1925, s. 12), repeating in effect a provision of the Act of Settlement (12 & 13 Wm. 3, c. 2), that the judges of the Supreme Court (with the exception of the Lord Chancellor, who goes out with the Ministry) shall hold their o...
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