In. English practice. The signature or allowance of the proper officer of a court, obtained by the party entitled to judgment in an action, expressing generally that judgment is given in Ills favor, and which stands in the place of its actual delivery by the judges themselves. Steph. PL 110, 111; French v. Pease, 10 Kan.
In American practice. Signing judgment means a signing of the judgment record Itself, which is done by the proper officer, on the margin of the record, opposite the entry of the judgment. 1 Burrill, Pr. 268.