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Definition of Judgment by default
1. Noun. A judgment entered in favor of the plaintiff when the defendant defaults (fails to appear in court).
Generic synonyms: Judgement, Judgment, Judicial Decision
Category relationships: Jurisprudence, Law
Lexicographical Neighbors of Judgment By Default
Literary usage of Judgment by default
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1919)
"On appeal from order setting aside judgment by default final, the facts found by
the trial judge are conclusive if there is any evidence on which to base ..."
2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"... the claim of Durell, the judgment by default taken against her was equivalent
to a joinder of issue with him as to the right in question. ..."
3. United States Supreme Court Reports by United States Supreme Court, Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1911)
"The court entering such judgment by default could have no such jurisdiction over
the person as to render such personal judgment, unless, by summons, ..."
4. The Encyclopædia of Pleading and Practice: Under the Codes and Practice Acts by William Mark McKinney, Thomas Johnson Michie (1896)
"Where any part of the judgment by default is valid and regular a motion to set
aside the ... A judgment by default may be set aside wholly or in part.8 10. ..."
5. Chitty's Treatise on Pleading and Parties to Actions: With a Second Volume by Joseph Chitty, Henry Greening, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1876)
"The defendant, therefore, where he has originally pleaded the general issue, and
is afterwards desirous of suffering judgment by default to a new assignment ..."
6. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence by Samuel March Phillipps (1822)
"A judgment by default is an admission of the cause of action. ... (4) After
judgment by default of a co-defendant, the plaintiff cannot be nonsuited as to ..."
7. Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia by John Bouvier, Francis Rawle (1914)
"A judgment by default is Just as conclusive between the parties of whatever is
essential to support it as one rendered after answer and contest ..."
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