单词 | pocket judgment |
释义 | > as lemmaspocket judgment pocket judgment n. now rare a recognizance or contract which can be enforced without further proceedings as if it is the judgment of a court. ΚΠ 1701 R. Gardiner Enchiridion Clericale 143 These are of the Nature of Judgments had upon Suits in the Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas, and therefore they are called Pocket-Judgments. 1736 M. Bacon New Abridgm. Law II. 331 The Addition of the King's Seal, which was never required to any Contract at Common Law, was to authenticate and make the Security of a higher Nature than any other then known... Thus it must be presumed from the Force of them, which is equal to Judgments of the Superior Courts, they obtained the Name of Pocket Judgments. 1872 Wharton's Law Lexicon (ed. 5) (at cited word) Pocket-judgment, a statute-merchant which was enforceable at any time after non-payment on the day assigned, without further proceedings. 1911 Encycl. Brit. XXV. 814/2 Statute merchant, owing to the summary method of enforcing payment, was sometimes known as ‘pocket judgment’. < as lemmas |
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