Word Meanings - ABJUDGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To take away by judicial decision.

Related words: (words related to ABJUDGE)

• JUDICIAL
  1. Pertaining or appropriate to courts of justice, or to a judge; practiced or conformed to in the administration of justice; sanctioned or ordered by a court; as, judicial power; judicial proceedings; a judicial sale. "Judicial massacres."
• JUDICIALLY
  In a judicial capacity or judicial manner. "The Lords . . . sitting judicially." Macaulay.
• DECISION
  1. Cutting off; division; detachment of a part. Bp. Pearson. 2. The act of deciding; act of settling or terminating, as a controversy, by giving judgment on the matter at issue; determination, as of a question or doubt; settlement; conclusion.
• INJUDICIAL
  Not according to the forms of law; not judicial.
• EXTRAJUDICIAL CONVEYANCE
  A conveyance, as by deed, effected by the act of the parties and not involving, as in the fine and recovery, judicial proceedings.
• INDECISION
  Want of decision; want of settled purpose, or of firmness; indetermination; wavering of mind; irresolution; vacillation; hesitation. The term indecision . . . implies an idea very nicely different from irresolution; yet it has a tendency to produce
• EXTRAJUDICIAL
  Out of or beyond the proper authority of a court or judge; beyond jurisdiction; not legally required. "An extrajudicial opinion." Hallam. -- Ex`tra*ju*di"cial*ly, adv.
• PREJUDICIAL
  1. Biased, possessed, or blinded by prejudices; as, to look with a prejudicial eye. Holyday. 2. Tending to obstruct or impair; hurtful; injurious; disadvantageous; detrimental. Hooker. His going away . . . was most prejudicial and most ruinous