JUDGMENT

(Lat judicium.) In Law, the sentence of the law pronounced by the court upon the matter contained in the record. 7 he term judgment, in English legal language, is restricted to the decisions of a court of common law: those of a court of equity are denominated decrees. Judgment! are said to be of four sorts: 1. Judgments in law (on demurrer, where the facts are confe ed upon the pleading). 2. Judgments in fact (on the verdict of a jury). 3. Judgments by confe ion or default, i. e. where both facts and law ore admitted by the defendant 4. Judgments on a nonsuit or retraxit, where both fact and law are admitted by iht plaiiititf, who thereupon withdraws his claim. Judgments are also said to be either interlocutory, on matter: the course of the proceeding; or final, on the merits of the case. Judgments, when obtained, must be signed by the proper officer, and entered of record, without which they are not judgments. Arrest of judgment arises from error appearing upon the face of the record; but such enor must now be, generally speaking, in substantial matter -A' law, and not on mere matter of form. Ji'dqments, in Logic, is defined to be the second of the three logical operations of the mind. It is the comparing together two of the notions which are the subjects of simple apprehension, and pronouncing that they agree or disagree with each other. Judgment, therefore, is either affirmative ve; and the Bubjects of judgment Bra propositions, which are expre ions of the agreement or disagreement of one term with another. Ju'dqment. In the Fine Arts, the faculty of selecting that which is most suitable to the purpose. [s. 639]