Judgment

The oflicial and authentic decision of a court of justice upon the respective rights and claims of the parties to an action or suit thercin litigated and submitted to its determination. The conclusion of law upon facts found, or admitted by the parties, or upon their default in the course of the suit. Tidd, Pr. by a court of justice or other competent tri bunal, as the result of proceedings instituted therein for the redress of an injury. 38 BI Comm. 395; 12 Minn. 487, (Gil. 326.) A judgment is the final determination o: the rights of the parties in the action.

Code N.Y. § 245; Code Civil Proc. Cal. § ome Code Civil Proc. Dak. § 228.

A judgment is the final consideration and deter mination of a court of competent jurisdiction upon the matter submitted to it, aud it is only evidenced by a record, or that which is by law, as the files and journal entries of this state, substituted tn its stead. Anorder for a judgment is not the judg. ment, nor does the entry of such order partake of the nature and qualities of a judgment record, This must ¢learly ascertain not ouly the deter mination of the court upon the subject submitted, but the parties in favor of and against whom It operates.

3 Mich. 88.

The term “judgment” is also used to de note the reason which the court gives for its decision; but this is more properly denomidated an “opinion.”

Classification.

Judgments are either in rein or in personam, as to which see June-