arrest of judgment. The staying of a judgment after its entry; esp., a court’s refusal to render or enforce a judgment because of a defect apparent from the record. • At common law, courts have the power to arrest judgment for intrinsic causes appearing on the record, as when the verdict differs materially from the pleadings or when the case alleged in the pleadings is legally insufficient. Today, this type of defect must typically be objected to before trial or before judgment is entered, so that the motion in arrest of judgment has been largely superseded.
— Also termed allocutus. [Cases: Criminal Law 966–976; Judgment 259–269. C.J.S. Criminal Law §§ 1453–1457; Judgments §§ 95–105.]
“An arrest of judgment [under common law] was the technical term describing the act of a trial judge refusing to enter judgment on the verdict because of an error appearing on the face of the record that rendered the judgment invalid.” United States v. Sisson, 399 U.S. 267, 280–81, 90 S.Ct. 2117, 2125 (1970).
双语律师李黎，国际知名法学院法律专业，擅长翻译各类与
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