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Forejudge

Defined in 8 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Black's (1891), Stimson (1881), Burrill (1850)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

To deprive a man of the thing in question by sentence of court. Among foreign writers, says Blount, forejudge is to banish, to expel.

In this latter sense, the word is also used in English law of an attorney who has been expelled from court for misconduct. Cowell; Cunningham.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

To expel from the court; to take away by judgment; to banish.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

To deprive a man of the thing in question by sentence of court. Among foreign writers, says Blount, forejudge is to banish, to expel. In this latter sense the word is also used in English law of an attorney who has been expelled from court for misconduct. Cowell; Cunningham, Law Diet

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

In old English law and practice. To expel from court for some offense or misconduct. When an officer or attorney of a ceurt was expelled for any offense or for not appearing to an action by bill filed against him, he was said to be forejudged the court. Cowell. To deprive or put out of a thing by the judgment of a court To condemn to lose a thing. To expel or banish.

Forejudger. In English practice. A judgment by which a man is deprived or put out of a thing; a judgment of expulsion or banishment.

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

forjudge.

In old English law. To expel from court, for some offense or misconduct; to deprive or put out of a thing by the judgment of a court; to banish or expel.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

In old English law and practice. To expel from court for some ot fense or misconduct, When an ofiicer or ab torney of a court was expelled for any offense, or for not appearing to an action by bill filed against him, he was said to be forejudged thecourt. Cowell. To deprive or put out of a thing by the judgment of a court. To condemn to lose a thing, To expel or banish.

Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law

Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881

To expel from court; to deprive of

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

Forjudge. [L. Fr. forjuger, from for, out, and juger, to adjudge; L. Lat. forisjudicare, q. v.] In old English law and practice. To expel from court, for some offence or misconduct. When an officer or attorney of a court was expelled for any offence, or for not appearing to an action by bill filed against him, he was said to be forejudged the court. Cowell. Stat. 2 Hen. IV. c. 8. See Forjudicare. To deprive, or put out of a thing by the judgment of a court. See Forjudicare. To expel, or banish. See Id.