Abjudication

Quick meaning: Abjudication is a noun meaning (law, rare) Rejection or confiscation by judicial sentence.

Meaning

(law, rare) Rejection or confiscation by judicial sentence.

Example Sentences

Abjudication of the freedom of Richard Northbury, and restitution thereof[…]

In the abjudication of all or certain rights of civil honor, decreed as a criminal penalty, one can trace the old "Rechtlosigkeit" due to crime, and the Roman "infamia iuris mediata."

However, an appeal lay from the Council against any sentence, abjudication or removal, to the Court of Directors, within one calendar month from date of such sentence or abjudication, upon the aggrieved party giving security sufficient to cover the cost of the appeal.

Word Forms

• abjudications

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include adjudication, adjudicature, adjudgement, abjugation, judication, adjudgment.

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