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JUDGMENT DOCKET

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A court record listing all the orders and decisions of a court. … [Read more...]

JUDICES SELECTI

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Latin: In the civil law. Select or selected judiees or judges; those who were used in criminal causes, and between whom and modern jurors many points of resemblance have been noticed. 3 Bl. Comm. 366. Judici officium suum excedenti non paretur. A judge exceeding his office is not to be obeyed. Jenk. Cent p. 139, case 84. Said of void judgments. Judici satis poena est quod Deum … [Read more...]

JUDGMENT IN DEFAULT

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A judgement that is rendered where one party does not appear or show. The party that does not appear may be able to bring an order to show cause to show why another opportunity should be granted to open the case for a hearing on the merits. … [Read more...]

JUDICIA

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Latin: In Roman law. Judicial proceedings; trials. Judicia publico, criminal trials. Dig. 48, 1. Judicia in curia regis non adnihilentur, sed stent in robore suo quousque per errorem aut attinctam adnullentur. Judgments in the king's courts are not to be annihilated, but to remain in force until annulled by error or attaint 2 Inst 539. Judicia in deliberationibus crebro … [Read more...]

JUDGE

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A public officer, appointed to preside and to administer the law in a court of justice; the chief member of a court, and charged with the control of proceedings and the decision of questions of law or. discretion. Todd v. U. S., 158 U, S. 278, 15 Sup. Ct. 889, 39 L. Ed. 982; Foot v. Stiles, 57 N. Y. 405; In re Lawyers' Tax Cases, 8 Heisk. (Tenn.) 650. "Judge" and "Justice".(a. … [Read more...]

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