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Definition of Judicial decision
1. Noun. (law) the determination by a court of competent jurisdiction on matters submitted to it.
Generic synonyms: Due Process, Due Process Of Law
Specialized synonyms: Reversal, Affirmation, Cognovit Judgement, Cognovit Judgment, Confession Of Judgement, Confession Of Judgment, Default Judgement, Default Judgment, Judgement By Default, Judgment By Default, Non Pros, Non Prosequitur, Final Decision, Final Judgment, Judgement In Personam, Judgment In Personam, Personal Judgement, Personal Judgment, Judgement In Rem, Judgment In Rem, Dismissal, Judgement Of Dismissal, Judgment Of Dismissal, Judgement On The Merits, Judgment On The Merits, Judgement On The Pleadings, Judgment On The Pleadings, Summary Judgement, Summary Judgment, Arbitrament, Arbitration, Arbitrement, Opinion, Ruling, Finding
Category relationships: Jurisprudence, Law
Derivative terms: Judge
Lexicographical Neighbors of Judicial Decision
Literary usage of Judicial decision
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"... or other rights by inheritance. aware of any judicial decision by a court of
federal jurisdiction which undertakes to give a definition of that term. ..."
2. Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856: From Gales and by United States Congress, Thomas Hart Benton (1860)
"To come within this description, a question must assume a legal form for forensic
litigation and judicial decision. There must be parties to come into court ..."
3. The Works of Rufus Choate: With a Memoir of His Life by Rufus Choate, Samuel Gilman Brown (1862)
"... the judge for an honest, judicial decision at a law term. That, you agree, is
not within the scope and objects of this power. ..."
4. The Slave Power: Its Character, Career and Probable Designs: Being an by John Elliott Cairnes (1863)
"To make good their ground, they had need of two things; first, a judicial decision
by the highest Federal authority in their favour; and secondly ..."
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