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Judgment In’ Error

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States · John Bouvier · 1839

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States

practice, is a judgment rendered by a court of error, on a record sent up from an inferior court. These judgments are of two kinds, of affirmance and reversal.—l. When the judgment is for the defendant in error, whether the errors assigned be in law or in fact, it is that the former judgment be affirmed, and stand in full force and effect, the said causes and matters assigned for error notwithstanding, and that the defendant in error recover $— for his damages charges and costs, which he hath sustained,” d&c. 2 Tidd’s Pr. 1126; Arch. Forms, 221.—When it is for plaintiff in error, the judgment is that it be reversed or recalled. It is to be re versed for error in law, in this form, that it “be reversed, annulled and altogether holden for nought.”

Arch. Forms, 224.

For error in fact the