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A
judgment (or
judgement; `see
Judgment#Spelling below), in a
legal context, is synonymous with the formal decision made by a court following a lawsuit. At the same time the court may also make a range of court orders, such as imposing a
sentence (law) upon a Guilt (law)y defendant in a Criminal law matter, or providing a
remedy for the
plaintiff in a civil law (common law) matter.
Description
General use
For a contrast to the following, see:
choice.
In non-legal contexts, a
judgment is a balanced weighing up of evidence preparatory to making a decision. A formal process of evaluation applies. A judgment may be expressed as a statement, e.g. S1: 'A is B' and is usually the outcome of an evaluation of alternatives. The formal process of evaluation can sometimes be described as a set of conditions and criteria that must be satisfied in order for a judgment to be made. What follows is a suggestive list of some conditions that are commonly required:
- there must be corroborating evidence for S1,
- there must be no true contradicting statements,
- if there are contradicting statements, these must be outweighed by the corroborating evidence for S1, or
- contradicting statements must themselves have no corroborating evidence
- S1 must also corroborate and be corroborated by the system of statements which are accepted as true.
One should be cautious in attributing, without a rigorous analysis, a rigid set of criteria to all forms of judgment. Often this results in unnecessary restrictions to judgment methodologies, excluding what may otherwise be considered legitimate judgments. For analogous difficulties in science and the scientific method see the Wikipedia entry on the
scientific method.
From the criteria mentioned above, we could judge that "It is raining" if there are raindrops hitting the window, if people outside are using umbrellas, and if there are clouds in the sky. Someone who says that despite all this, it is not raining, but cannot provide evidence for this, would not undermine our judgment.
However, if they demonstrated that there was a sophisticated projection and audio system to produce the illusion of our evidence, then we would probably reconsider our judgment. However, we would not do this lightly, we would demand evidence of the existence of such a system. Then it would need to be decided again upon available new evidence whether or not it was raining.
Many forms of judgment, including the above example, require that they be supported by, and support, known facts which are themselves well supported, and its negation must be shown to be unfounded, before it is accepted as well founded.
Legal use
In the United States, under the rules of
civil procedure governing practice in federal courts and most state courts, the
entry of judgment is the final order entered by the court in the case, leaving no further action to be taken by the court with respect to the issues contested by the parties to the lawsuit. With certain exceptions, only a
final judgment is subject to
appeal.
Types of judgment in law
- Consent judgment, a final, binding judgment in a case in which both parties agree, by stipulation, to a particular outcome
- Declaratory judgment, a judgment of a court in a civil case which declares the rights, duties, or obligations of each party in a dispute
- Default judgment, a binding judgment in favor of the plaintiff when the defendant has not responded to a summons
- Summary judgment, a legal term which means that a court has made a determination without a full trial
- Vacated judgment, the result of the judgment of an appellate court which overturns, reverses, or sets aside the judgment of a lower court
- Value judgment, a judgment of the rightness or wrongness of something
==Spelling==The spelling
judgment is found in the
Authorized Version of the Bible. However, the spelling
judgement (with e added) largely replaced
judgment in the United Kingdom in a non-legal context, possibly because writing
dg without a following
e for the /dʒ/ was seen as an incorrect spelling. In the context of the law and theology, however,
judgment is preferred. In the
U.S. judgment strongly prevails. As with many such spelling differences, both forms are equally acceptable in
Canada and
Australia, although
judgment is more common in Canada and
judgement in Australia.Pam Peters,
The Cambridge Guide to English Usage, p. 303. In
New Zealand the form
judgment is the preferred spelling in dictionaries, newspapers and legislation, although the variant
judgement can also be found in all three categories. In South Africa,
judgement is the more common form. See further at
American and British English spelling differences.
Notes
A
judgment (or
judgement; `see Judgment#Spelling below), in a
legal context, is synonymous with the formal decision made by a
court following a lawsuit. At the same time the court may also make a range of court orders, such as imposing a sentence (law) upon a
Guilt (law)y
defendant in a
Criminal law matter, or providing a
remedy for the
plaintiff in a civil law (common law) matter.
Description
General use
For a contrast to the following, see:
choice.
In non-legal contexts, a
judgment is a balanced weighing up of evidence preparatory to making a decision. A formal process of evaluation applies. A judgment may be expressed as a statement, e.g. S1: 'A is B' and is usually the outcome of an evaluation of alternatives. The formal process of evaluation can sometimes be described as a set of conditions and criteria that must be satisfied in order for a judgment to be made. What follows is a suggestive list of some conditions that are commonly required:
- there must be corroborating evidence for S1,
- there must be no true contradicting statements,
- if there are contradicting statements, these must be outweighed by the corroborating evidence for S1, or
- contradicting statements must themselves have no corroborating evidence
- S1 must also corroborate and be corroborated by the system of statements which are accepted as true.
One should be cautious in attributing, without a rigorous analysis, a rigid set of criteria to all forms of judgment. Often this results in unnecessary restrictions to judgment methodologies, excluding what may otherwise be considered legitimate judgments. For analogous difficulties in science and the scientific method see the Wikipedia entry on the
scientific method.
From the criteria mentioned above, we could judge that "It is raining" if there are raindrops hitting the window, if people outside are using umbrellas, and if there are clouds in the sky. Someone who says that despite all this, it is not raining, but cannot provide evidence for this, would not undermine our judgment.
However, if they demonstrated that there was a sophisticated projection and audio system to produce the illusion of our evidence, then we would probably reconsider our judgment. However, we would not do this lightly, we would demand evidence of the existence of such a system. Then it would need to be decided again upon available new evidence whether or not it was raining.
Many forms of judgment, including the above example, require that they be supported by, and support, known facts which are themselves well supported, and its negation must be shown to be unfounded, before it is accepted as well founded.
Legal use
In the United States, under the rules of
civil procedure governing practice in federal courts and most state courts, the
entry of judgment is the final order entered by the court in the case, leaving no further action to be taken by the court with respect to the issues contested by the parties to the lawsuit. With certain exceptions, only a
final judgment is subject to appeal.
Types of judgment in law
- Consent judgment, a final, binding judgment in a case in which both parties agree, by stipulation, to a particular outcome
- Declaratory judgment, a judgment of a court in a civil case which declares the rights, duties, or obligations of each party in a dispute
- Default judgment, a binding judgment in favor of the plaintiff when the defendant has not responded to a summons
- Summary judgment, a legal term which means that a court has made a determination without a full trial
- Vacated judgment, the result of the judgment of an appellate court which overturns, reverses, or sets aside the judgment of a lower court
- Value judgment, a judgment of the rightness or wrongness of something
==Spelling==The spelling
judgment is found in the
Authorized Version of the Bible. However, the spelling
judgement (with e added) largely replaced
judgment in the
United Kingdom in a non-legal context, possibly because writing
dg without a following
e for the /dʒ/ was seen as an incorrect spelling. In the context of the law and theology, however,
judgment is preferred. In the U.S.
judgment strongly prevails. As with many such spelling differences, both forms are equally acceptable in Canada and Australia, although
judgment is more common in Canada and
judgement in Australia.Pam Peters,
The Cambridge Guide to English Usage, p. 303. In New Zealand the form
judgment is the preferred spelling in dictionaries, newspapers and legislation, although the variant
judgement can also be found in all three categories. In South Africa,
judgement is the more common form. See further at
American and British English spelling differences.
Notes