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Personal judgment   /pˈərsɪnɪl dʒˈədʒmənt/   Listen
Personal judgment

noun
1.
A judgment rendered against an individual (or corporation) for the payment of money damages.  Synonyms: judgement in personam, judgment in personam, personal judgement.






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"Personal judgment" Quotes from Famous Books



... aesthetic suggestions which are in fashion, but the average members of the public are absolutely dominated by them. Originating in a correct idea of certain effects of light, the most absurd exaggerations may become accepted as beautiful and natural by an imitative public devoid of personal judgment, by the aid of suggestion. These deplorable effects of suggestion may last a long time till their nullity or their absurdity causes them gradually to disappear. But they are usually replaced by ...
— The Sexual Question - A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study • August Forel

... defendant ventured to New York, he could, as the Constitution of the United States then stood, have been subjected to the judgment of the same extent as the New York defendant who had been personally served. Subsequently, this disparity between the operation of a personal judgment in the home State and a sister State has been eliminated, thanks to the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment. In divorce cases, however, it still persists in some measure. (See ...
— The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation • Edward Corwin

... queen and Lady Rochford, who had been her confidential companion, suffered within the Tower. Once more the king ventured into marriage. Catherine, widow of Lord Latimer, his last choice, was selected, not in the interest of politics or religion, but by his own personal judgment; and this time he found the ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Vol XI. • Edited by Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton

... magnate of our Club was Lowell, with whose personality the world at large is already well acquainted. In his own day and presence it was impossible to form a satisfactory personal judgment of him, and even now, through the perspective of the years since he died, it is out of the question for me to pronounce a dispassionate judgment. Of all that New England world, so hospitable, so brotherly ...
— The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I • Stillman, William James

... Lake's naturally weak will and unselfish disposition into a sort of mental pulp, plastic to any pressure from without. To men she invariably yielded; and, poor specimen of a man as the Cheap Jack was, she had no fibre of personal judgment or decision in the strength of which to oppose his assertions, and every instant she became more and more convinced that wares she neither wanted nor approved of were necessary to her, and good bargains, because the man ...
— Jan of the Windmill • Juliana Horatia Ewing



Words linked to "Personal judgment" :   law, judgment, jurisprudence, judgement in personam, judgement, personal judgement, corporation, judgment in rem, corp, judgment in personam, judicial decision



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