abjudication

Definitions

Rejection or confiscation by judicial sentence.

countable, rare, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“However, an appeal lay⟳ from the Council against any sentence, abjudication or removal, to the Court of Directors, within one calendar month from date⟳ of such sentence or abjudication, upon the aggrieved party giving security sufficient to cover⟳ the cost⟳ of the appeal.”

“Abjudication of the freedom of Richard Northbury, and restitution thereof[…]”

“In the abjudication of all or certain rights of civil honor, decreed as a criminal penalty, one can trace the old "Rechtlosigkeit" due to crime, and the Roman "infamia iuris mediata."”

CEFR level