Adjudge

To decide or determine. It is sometimes used with "considered, ordered, determined, decreed as one of the operative words of a final judgment," but is also applicable to interlocutory orders. It is synonymous with "decided," "determined," etc., "and may be used by a judge trying a case, without a jury with reference to his findings of fact, but they would not be a judgment"; Edwards v. Hellings, 99 Cal. 214, 33 Pac. 799. "Convicted and adjudged" not to be lawfully entitled to remain in the United States, under the Chinese Exclusion Act, means "found, decided by the Commissioner, representing, not the administration of criminal law, but the political department of the government;" U. S. v. Hing Quong Chow, 53 Fed. 233. Adjudged does not mean the same as deemed, nor is one disqualified as a witness who "shall, upon conviction, be adjudged guilty of perjury" merely by verdict of guilty or until sentence; Blaufus v. People, 69 N. T. 107, 25 Am. Rep. 148. It was said by Gibson, C. J., that the word "can be predicated only of an act of the court"; Searight v. Com., 13 S. & R. (Pa.) 301.

To pass upon judicially; to decide, settle, or decree; to sentence or condemn.

To decide judicially; to adjudicate; sometimes, to declare or deem, but not implying any judgment of a judicial tribunal. As in a statute declaring that "all lotteries are hereby adjudged to be common nuisances." ' Compare Deem.