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S: LII – https://www.law.cornell.edu/gender-justice/resource/mme_florence_b%E2%80%A6/ibm_rg_02/00504_arret_n._635_2003 (last access: 18 February 2025); ECHR – https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng-press#%20 (last access: 18 February 2025).
N: 1. Mid 13c. Meaning “action of trying at law, trial,” also “capacity for making decisions,” from Old French jugement “legal judgment; diagnosis; the Last Judgment” (11c.), from jugier “to judge”.
From late 13c. as “penalty imposed by a court;” early 14c. as “any authoritative decision, verdict in a court case.” From late 14c. in reference to the final trial of the human race in a future state (Judgment Day attested from late 14c.). Also from c. 1300 as “opinion.” Sense of “discernment” is first recorded 1530s. By 1610s as “a divine allotment, event regarded as an expression of divine displeasure.”
2. An arret (arrêt in French) is a decision made by a court or a ruler. It is like a rule that everyone has to follow. Sometimes, it is called a judgment or a sentence.
- a judgment, decision, or decree of a court or sovereign.
3. Decisions (Practice and Procedural Law): judgment, judgement.
- A judicial decision[,] given by a judge or court.
- The term “judgment,” which means a judicial decision, is a generic term compared to “arrêt.” The English language doesn’t have a term as specific as “arrêt,” and uses “judgment” for both trial-level and appeal-level courts. The French language, on the other hand, uses “arrêt,” a term that refers only to judicial decisions of an appeal-level court, up to the Supreme Court of Canada (the country’s top court).
- French equivalent: arrêt.
4. Decisions (Practice and Procedural Law): judgment, judgement.
- A judicial decision[,] given by a judge or court.
- French equivalent: jugement.
5. Collocations:
- adjective + noun (judgment): accurate | balanced | impartial, independent, objective | personal, subjective | intuitive | qualitative | harsh | snap | definitive.
- verb + noun (judgement): form, make | express | confirm | come to, reach | deliver, give, pass, pronounce | reserve, suspend | obtain, win | reverse | abide by.
- : in sb’s ~ | ~ about | ~ against | ~ as to | ~ on.
S: 1. Etymonline – https://www.etymonline.com/word/judgement#etymonline_v_6525 (last access: 18 February 2025). 2. LSD – https://www.lsd.law/define/arret (last access: 18 February 2025); MW – https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/arret (last access: 18 February 2025). 3 & 4. TERMIUM PLUS – https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-eng.html?lang=eng&i=1&srchtxt=judgment&index=alt&codom2nd_wet=1#resultrecs (last access: 18 February 2025); GDT – https://vitrinelinguistique.oqlf.gouv.qc.ca/fiche-gdt/fiche/1199143/arret, https://vitrinelinguistique.oqlf.gouv.qc.ca/fiche-gdt/fiche/1199179/jugement (last access: 18 February 2025). 5. OZDIC – https://ozdic.com/collocation/judgement (last access: 18 February 2025)
OV: judgement
S: TERMIUM PLUS – https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-eng.html?lang=eng&i=1&srchtxt=judgment&index=alt&codom2nd_wet=1#resultrecs (last access: 18 February 2025)
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