adjudication
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noun
act of judgment, adjudgment, arbitrage, arbitrament, arbitration, authoritative decision, award, conclusion, decision, declaration, decree, deliberate determination, determination, determination of issues, disposition, edict, final determination, final judgment, finding, irrevocable decision, judgment, judgment on facts, judicial decision, opinion, order, order of the court, proclamation, pronouncement, reasoned judgment, res judicata, resolution, result, ruling, sentence, settled decision, verdict
associated concepts: adjudication of a court of competent jurisdiction, adjudication of bankruptcy, adjudication of guilt, adjudication of incompetency, adjudication of innocence, adjudication of insolvency, adjudication of liability, adjudication on the merits, adjudication under law, adjudicative facts, judicial assessment
foreign phrases:
- Novum judicium non dat novum jus, sed declarat antiquum; quia judicium est juris dictum et per judicium jus est noviter revelatum quod diu fuit velatum. — A new adjudication does not promulgate a new law, but declares the old, because adjudication is the utterance of the law, and by adjudication the law is newly revealed which was for a long time hidden.
- Res judicata pro veritate accipitur. — A thing which is adjudicated is accepted or received for the truth
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index
award, cognovit, conclusion (determination), conviction (finding of guilt), decree, determination, direction (order), holding (ruling of a court), judgment (formal court decree), opinion (judicial decision), res judicata, ruling, sentence, verdict
Burton's Legal Thesaurus.
William C. Burton.
2006