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JUDGMENT IN PERSONAM

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A judgment against a particular person, as distinguished from a judgment against a thing or a right or status. The former class of judgments are conclusive only upon parties and privies; the latter upon all the world. See next title. … [Read more...]

JUDICIAL

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Belonging to the office of a judge; as judicial authority. Relating to or connected with the administration of justice; as a judicial officer. Having the character of judgment or formal legal procedure; as a judicial act Proceeding from a court of justice; as a judicial writ a judicial determination. Judicial action. Action of a court upon a cause, by hearing it, and … [Read more...]

JUDGE ADVOCATE

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An officer who, is a member of a court martial. 2. His duties are to prosecute in the name of the United States, but he shall so far consider himself as counsel for the prisoner, after the prisoner shall have made his plea, as to object to leading questions to any of the witnesses, or any question to the prisoner, the answer to which might tend to criminate himself. He is … [Read more...]

JUDGMENT IN REM

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A judgment in rem is an adjudication, pronounced upon the status of some particular subject matter, by a tribunal having competent authority for that purpose. It differs from a judgment in personam, in this: that the latter judgment is in form, as well as substance, between the parties claiming the right; and that it is so inter partes appears by the record itself. It is … [Read more...]

JUDICIAL ACTION

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An action or a decision rendered by a court after a hearing. … [Read more...]

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