Also adjudgement in J. [f. ADJUDGE v. + -MENT.] The act of adjudging, adjudication; a decree, judicial sentence, or award.
1695. Sir W. Temple, Introd. Hist. Eng., 158. The Adjudgment of the Punishment, and the Sentence thereupon came to be given by one or two or more Persons chosen out of such as were best versed in the Knowledge of what had been usual in former Judgments upon like Cases.
1723. Le Neve, Lives of Abps., I. 242 (T.). The right of presentation was adjudged for the King … and such adjudgement was afterwards confirmed by the house of Lords.
1820. Foster, Evils of Pop. Ignor., 62. Numbers of that community, having conspired to obtain this adjudgment.
