abjudication

English

Etymology

From abjudicate +‎ -ion or from Latin abiūdicātiō. First attested in 1623.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əbˌd͡ʒuː.dɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

abjudication (countable and uncountable, plural abjudications)

1. (law, rare) Rejection or confiscation by judicial sentence.
   • 1904, Claude George, chapter 11, in The Rise of British West Africa‎^[1], Houlston & Sons, page 135:

     However, an appeal lay from the Council against any sentence, abjudication or removal, to the Court of Directors, within one calendar month from date of such sentence or abjudication, upon the aggrieved party giving security sufficient to cover the cost of the appeal.

   • 1861, City of London Corporation, edited by Henry Thomas Riley, compiled by John Carpenter, Liber Albus‎^[2], page 496:

     Abjudication of the freedom of Richard Northbury, and restitution thereof […]

   • 1918, Rudolf Hübner, Paul Vinogradoff, William Emanuel Walz, A History of Germanic Private Law, Little, Brown, page 108:

     In the abjudication of of all or certain rights of civil honor, decreed as a criminal penalty, one can trace the old "Rechtlosigkeit" due to crime, and the Roman "infamia iuris mediata."

Translations

Translations

• Finnish: hylkääminen (fi), peruuttaminen (fi)
• German: Abjudikation (de) f, Aberkennung (de) f
• Polish: abiudykacja (pl) f
• Ukrainian: аб'юдика́ція (uk) f (abʺjudykácija)

References

• “abjudication”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “abjudication, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.