adjudged

ordered, adjudged, and decreed. The traditional words used to present a court’s decision (It is therefore ordered, adjudged, and decreed that …). “The usual style of a decree is ‘it is ordered, adjudged, and decreed’; and of an order or rule, ‘it is ordered,’ etc.” 1 Henry Campbell Black, A Treatise on the Law of […]

The traditional words used to present a court’s decision [It is therefore ordered, adjudged, and decreed that…].