Helen Fenton

Adjudication: Definition and part of speech

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Adjudication

  1. n. A process by which land is attached security or in satisfaction of a debt.
  2. n. The act of adjudicating; the act or process of trying and determining judicially.
  3. n. A deliberate determination by the judicial power; a judicial decision or sentence.
  4. n. The decision upon the question whether the debtor is a bankrupt.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Adjudicate: Definition and part of speech

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Adjudicate

  1. v. i. To come to a judicial decision; as, the court adjudicated upon the case.
  2. v. t. To adjudge; to try and determine, as a court; to settle by judicial decree.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.