Signing Judgment
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In English Practice. The plaintiff or defendant, when the cause has reached such a stage that he is entitled to a judgment, obtains the signature or allowance of the proper officer; and this is called "signing judgment," and is instead of the delivery of judgment in open court. Steph. PI.
111.
It Is the leave of the master of the office to enter up judgment, and may be had in vacation.
3 Barn. & C. 317; Tidd, Prac. 616. ' In American Practice.
It is an actual signing of the judg:ment on the record, by the judge or other officer duly authorized.
Graham, Prac. 341.
SIGNUIVI (Lat.) In the Roman and Civil Law. A sign; a mark; a seal. The seal of an instrument. Calv. Lex. In the Saxon Law. The sign of a cross prefixed as a sign of assent and approbation to a charter or deed.