Judgment Roll
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
In English Law. A record made of the issue roll (which see), which, after final Judgment has been given in the cause, assumes tliis name.
Steph. Pi., Andr. ed. § 97; 3 Chltty, Stat. 614; Freem. Judg. § 75.
The Judicature Act of 1875 requires every Judgment to be entered in a boqk by the proper otticer. It has been abolished, as such, in New Jersey; Jennings v. Philadelphia & R. Co., 23 Fed. 571. There is said to be hopeless confusion in the cases as to what constitutes the Judgment roll. All the cases agree that the complaint, the summons and, most of them, the return on the summons, the affidavit for publication in case of constructive service, and papers of that sort; Terry v. Gibson, 23 Colo. App. 273, 128 Pac. 1129, citing many cases, and also 1 Gr. Evid. 511, and Freem. Judg. S 78.