abjudication

plural abjudications

1. countablerareuncountablelawRejection or confiscation by judicial sentence.

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

   1861, City of London Corporation, edited by Henry Thomas Riley, compiled by John Carpenter, Liber Albus, page 496

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   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.

   1904, Claude George, chapter 11, in The Rise of British West Africa, Houlston & Sons, page 135

   In the abjudication 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."

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