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Judgment is considered a "free variation" word, and the use of either judgment or judgement (with an e) is considered acceptable. [6] This variation arises depending on the country and the use of the word in a legal or non-legal context.
A judgment is a balanced weighing up of evidence to form a decision or opinion. Judgment or judgement may also refer to: Judgment (mathematical logic) Judgment (law), a formal decision made by a court following a lawsuit; Value judgment, a determination of something's worth or goodness, based upon a particular set of values or point of view
Judgement (or judgment) [1] (in legal context, known as adjudication) is the evaluation of given circumstances to make a decision. [2] Judgment is the ability to make ...
Judgment notwithstanding the verdict, also called judgment non obstante veredicto, or JNOV, is a type of judgment as a matter of law that is sometimes rendered at the conclusion of a jury trial. In American state courts , JNOV is the practice whereby the presiding judge in a civil jury trial may overrule the decision of a jury and reverse or ...
S/J — Summary judgment; SMJ — Subject-matter jurisdiction; So. — Southern Reporter; So. 2d — Southern Reporter, 2nd Series; SOL — Statute of Limitations; SOR — Statutory Orders and Regulations; S.R.R. — Sacræ Rotæ Romanæ, the Tribunal of the Roman Rota; SRRDec — Sacræ Rotæ Romanæ Decisiones [5]
A "motion to dismiss" asks the court to decide that a claim, even if true as stated, is not one for which the law offers a legal remedy.As an example, a claim that the defendant failed to greet the plaintiff while passing the latter on the street, insofar as no legal duty to do so may exist, would be dismissed for failure to state a valid claim: the court must assume the truth of the factual ...
The filing of a declaratory judgment lawsuit can follow the sending by one party of a cease-and-desist letter to another party. [6] A party contemplating sending such a letter risks that the recipient, or a party related to the recipient (i.e. such as a customer or supplier), may file for a declaratory judgment in their own jurisdiction, or sue for minor damages in the law of unjustified threats.
Angelo Gambiglioni, De re iudicata, 1579 Res judicata or res iudicata, also known as claim preclusion, is the Latin term for judged matter, [1] and refers to either of two concepts in common law civil procedure: a case in which there has been a final judgment and that is no longer subject to appeal; and the legal doctrine meant to bar (or preclude) relitigation of a claim between the same parties.