JUDGMENT

(Lat. judicium.) In Law, the sentence of the law pronounced by the court upon the matter contained in the record. The 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. Judgments are said to be of four sorts: — 1. Judgments in law (on demurrer, where the facts are confe ed upon the pleadings); 2. Judgments in fact (on the verdict of a jury); 3. Judgments by confe ion or default, i. e. where both facts and law are admitted by the defendant; 4. Judgments on a nonsuit or retraxit, where both fact and law are admitted bv the plaintiff, who thereupon withdraws his claim. Jucfgments are also said to be either interlocutory, on matter arising in the course of the proceeding; or final, on the merits of the case. Judgments, wiien 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 error must now be, generally speaking, in substantial matter of law, and not on mere matter of form. Ju'dgment, in Logic, is defined to be the second of the three logical operations oi 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 or negative; and the subjects of judgment are propositions, which are expre ions of the agreement or disagreement of one term with another. Ju'dgment In the Fine Arts, the faculty of selecting that which is most suitable to the purpose. JUDICA. {\.At.jtidge.) The fifth Sunday after Lent was so called, because the primitive church began the service on that day with the words of the 43d Psalm, " Judica me, Domine,"— " Judge me. O Lord." JUDICIUM DEI. {Lat. judgment of God.) Th3 [s. 633]