A decision of a court regarding the rights and liabilities of the parties to legal proceedings. Judgments generally provide the court’s explanation as to why it has chosen to make a particular decision.
Latin for ‘a thing adjudicated’. A legal principle that once a matter is adjudged by a court having jurisdiction, it is finally decided and cannot be adjudicated again, except by way of an appeal.
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