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/ədʒˌudəkˈeɪʃən/ Listen

Adjudication

noun

The final judgment in a legal proceeding; the act of pronouncing judgment based on the evidence presented.

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... habits. They frequent taverns and wine-shops, and they quarrel over their liquor; the word and the blow of other people is with them the word and the knife. The rural population are as bad as the townspeople. Quarrels between neighbours and relatives are submitted to the adjudication of cold steel. Of course they would do better to go before the nearest magistrate; but justice is slow in the States of the Church; lawsuits cost money, and bribery is the order of the day; the judges are either fools or knaves. So out with ...

— The Roman Question • Edmond About

... Manchester is the metropolis of the fanciers, and prizes from five shillings to five or ten pounds are yearly given for the heaviest fruit. The 'Gooseberry Growers Register' is published annually; the earliest known copy is dated 1786, but it is certain that meetings for the adjudication of prizes were held some years previously. (10/125. Mr. Clarkson of Manchester on the Culture of the Gooseberry in Loudon's 'Gardener's Magazine' volume 4 1828 page 482.) The 'Register' for 1845 gives an account of ...

— The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication - Volume I • Charles Darwin

... abused and is a potent means of railroad extortion. And that it may not be charged that abuses have been cited which are a thing of the past, the examples will chiefly be taken from cases which have come before the Interstate Commission for adjudication. ...

— The Railroad Question - A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and - remedies for their abuses • William Larrabee

Words linked to "Adjudication" : assessment, judgement, judgment