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Webster 1913 Edition

Prejudication

Pre-juˊdi-ca′tion

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Noun.
1.
The act of prejudicating, or of judging without due examination of facts and evidence; prejudgment.
2.
(Rom. Law)
(a)
A preliminary inquiry and determination about something which belongs to a matter in dispute.
(b)
A previous treatment and decision of a point; a precedent.

Webster 1828 Edition

Prejudication

PREJUDICA'TION

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Noun.
The act of judging without due examination of facts and evidence.
1.
In Roman oratory, prejudications were of three kinds; first, precedents or adjudged cases, involving the same points of law; second, previous decisions on the same question between other parties; third, decisions of the same cause and between the same parties, before tribunals of inferior jurisdiction.

Definition 2024

prejudication

prejudication

English

Noun

prejudication ‎(countable and uncountable, plural prejudications)

  1. judgment without due examination of facts and evidence
  2. (law) A preliminary inquiry and determination about something which belongs to a matter in dispute.
  3. A previous treatment and decision of a point; a precedent.

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