An opinion; a decision;
a determination; a judgment, especially one of an unfavorable
nature.
In civil and admiralty law,
the judgment of a court pronounced in a cause; in criminal and
ecclesiastical courts, a judgment passed on a criminal by a court or
judge; condemnation pronounced by a judgical tribunal; doom. In common
law, the term is exclusively used to denote the judgment in criminal
cases.
A short saying, usually containing moral
instruction; a maxim; an axiom; a saw.
A combination of words which
is complete as expressing a thought, and in writing is marked at the
close by a period, or full point. See Proposition, 4.
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