Adjudication vs. Sentence

Adjudicationnoun

The act of adjudicating, of reaching a judgement.

Adjudicationnoun

A judgment or sentence.

Adjudicationnoun

(legal) The decision upon the question of whether the debtor is a bankrupt.

Adjudicationnoun

(emergency response) The process of identifying the type of material or device that set off an alarm and assessing the potential threat with corresponding implications for the need to take further action.

Adjudicationnoun

A process by which land is attached as security or in satisfaction of a debt.

Adjudicationnoun

The act of adjudicating; the act or process of trying and determining judicially.

Adjudicationnoun

A deliberate determination by the judicial power; a judicial decision or sentence.

Adjudicationnoun

The decision upon the question whether the debtor is a bankrupt.

Adjudicationnoun

A process by which land is attached security or in satisfaction of a debt.

Adjudicationnoun

the final judgment in a legal proceeding; the act of pronouncing judgment based on the evidence presented

Adjudication

Adjudication is the legal process by which an arbiter or judge reviews evidence and argumentation, including legal reasoning set forth by opposing parties or litigants, to come to a decision which determines rights and obligations between the parties involved.Adjudication can also refer to the processes at dance competitions, in television game shows and at other competitive forums, by which competitors are evaluated and ranked and a winner is found.

Sentencenoun

(dated) The decision or judgement of a jury or court; a verdict.

Sentencenoun

The judicial order for a punishment to be imposed on a person convicted of a crime.

Sentencenoun

A punishment imposed on a person convicted of a crime.

Sentencenoun

(obsolete) A saying, especially from a great person; a maxim, an apophthegm.

Sentencenoun

(grammar) A grammatically complete series of words consisting of a subject and predicate, even if one or the other is implied, and typically beginning with a capital letter and ending with a full stop.

Sentencenoun

(logic) A formula with no free variables.

Sentencenoun

(computing theory) Any of the set of strings that can be generated by a given formal grammar.

Sentencenoun

(obsolete) Sense; meaning; significance.

Sentencenoun

(obsolete) One's opinion; manner of thinking.

Sentencenoun

A pronounced opinion or judgment on a given question.

Sentenceverb

To declare a sentence on a convicted person; to doom; to condemn to punishment.

Sentenceverb

(obsolete) To decree or announce as a sentence.

Sentenceverb

(obsolete) To utter sententiously.

Sentencenoun

Sense; meaning; significance.

Sentencenoun

An opinion; a decision; a determination; a judgment, especially one of an unfavorable nature.

Sentencenoun

A philosophical or theological opinion; a dogma; as, Summary of the Sentences; Book of the Sentences.

Sentencenoun

In civil and admiralty law, the judgment of a court pronounced in a cause; in criminal and ecclesiastical courts, a judgment passed on a criminal by a court or judge; condemnation pronounced by a judicial tribunal; doom. In common law, the term is exclusively used to denote the judgment in criminal cases.

Sentencenoun

A short saying, usually containing moral instruction; a maxim; an axiom; a saw.

Sentencenoun

A combination of words which is complete as expressing a thought, and in writing is marked at the close by a period, or full point. See Proposition, 4.

Sentenceverb

To pass or pronounce judgment upon; to doom; to condemn to punishment; to prescribe the punishment of.

Sentenceverb

To decree or announce as a sentence.

Sentenceverb

To utter sententiously.

Sentencenoun

a string of words satisfying the grammatical rules of a language;

Sentencenoun

(criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed;

Sentencenoun

the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned;

Sentenceverb

pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law;