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Definitive

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

That which terminal suit; final. A definitive sentence or judgment is put in opposition to an interlocutory judgment. A distinction has been drawn in the United States supreme court between a final and a definitive judgment in regard to the condemnation of a prize in a court of admiralty; r.

S. v. The Peggy, 1 Cra. (U. S.) l"::.

2 L. Ed. 49; but for all practical purposes a definitive judgment or decree is final; Appeal of Gesell, 84 Pa. 238.

See Di Judgment.