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Judicial decision






Judicial decision

Judicial decision refers to the closure, the determination by a court of competent jurisdiction on matters submitted to its judgment.

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Judicial
Belonging, or emanating from a judge, as such.

Decision
Practice. A judgment given by a competent tribunal. The French lawyers call the opinions which they give on questions propounded to them, decisions.

Determination
The end, the conclusion, of a right or authority.

Court
A body in government to which the administration of justice is delegated.

Jurisdiction
Practice. A power constitutionally conferred upon a judge or magistrate, to take cognizance of, and decide causes according to law, and to carry his sentence into execution. The tract of land or district within which a judge or magistrate has jurisdiction, is called his territory, and his power in relation to his territory is called his territorial jurisdiction.

Judgment
Practice. The decision or sentence of the law, given by a court of justice or other competent tribunal, as the result of proceedings instituted therein, for the redress of an injury.



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Judicature
The state of those employed in the administration of justice, and in this sense it is nearly synonymous with judiciary. This term is also used to signify a tribunal; and sometimes it is employed to show the extent of jurisdiction, as, the judicature is upon writs of error.

Judices pedaneos
Among the Romans, the praetors, and other great magistrates, did not themselves decide the actions which arose between private individuals these were submitted to judges chosen by the parties, and these judges were called judices pedaneos. In choosing them, the plaintiff had the right to nominate, and the defendant to accept or reject those nominated.

Judicial
Belonging, or emanating from a judge, as such.

Judicial admissions
Those which are generally made in writing in court by the attorney of the party; they appear upon the record, as in the pleadings and the like.

Judicial confessions
Criminal law. Those voluntarily made before a magistrate, or in a court, in the due course of legal proceedings. A preliminary examination, taken in writing, by a magistrate lawfully authorized, pursuant to a statute, or the plea of guilty, made in open court to an indictment, are sufficient to found a conviction upon them.

Judicial conventions
Agreements entered into in consequence of an order of court; as, for example, entering into a bond on taking out a writ of sequestration.

Judicial error
Judicial mistakes that led to convict a person on a crime they did not commit. The error may occur during investigation phase or during trial and may refer to public servants department as in police, csi, prosecutors and sometimes judges.

Judicial lien
A lien obtained by judgment or other judicial process against a debtor.

Judicial mistake
Judicial error leading to convict a person on a crime they did not commit. The error may occur during investigation phase or during trial and may refer to public servants department as in police, csi, prosecutors and sometimes judges.

Judicial mortgage
In Louisiana, it is the lien resulting from judgments, whether these be rendered on contested cases, or by default, whether they be final or provisional, in favor of the person obtaining them.

Judicial review
When a court decision is appealed, it is known as an "appeal." But there are many administrative agencies or tribunals which make decisions or deliver government services of one sort or another, the decisions of which can also be "appealed." In many cases, the "appeal" from administrative agencies is known as "judicial review" which is essentially a process where a court of law is asked to rule on the appropriateness of the administrative agency or tribunal's decision. Judicial review is a fundamental principle of administrative law. A distinctive feature of judicial review is that the "appeal" is not usually limited to errors in law but may be based on alleged errors on the part of the administrative agency on findings of fact.

Judicial sale
A sale by authority of some competent tribunal, by an officer authorized by law for the purpose.

Judicial writs
English practice. The capias and all other writs subsequent to the original writ not issuing out of chancery, but from the court into which the original was returnable, and being grounded on what had passed in that court in consequence of the sheriff's return, were called judicial writs, in contradistinction to the writs issued out of chancery, which were called original writs.

Judiciary
That which is done while administering justice; the judges taken collectively; as, the liberties of the people are secured by a wise and independent judiciary.

Judicium dei
The judgment of God. The English law formerly impiously called the judgments on trials by ordeal, by battle, and the like, the judgments of God.



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Judicial error
Judicial mistakes that led to convict a person on a crime they did not commit. The error may occur during investigation phase or during trial and may refer to public servants department as in police, csi, prosecutors and sometimes judges.

Judicial mistake
Judicial error leading to convict a person on a crime they did not commit. The error may occur during investigation phase or during trial and may refer to public servants department as in police, csi, prosecutors and sometimes judges.

Jurisprudential
Jurisprudential refers to the science/philosophy of law or a system of laws.

Judicial decision

JSD
JSD is the acronym for Doctor of Juridical Science.

Juris Doctor
Juris Doctor refers to the law degree granted upon graduation by many university law schools with accepted high standards of admission and grading.

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