{"id":362322,"date":"2013-01-28T16:34:14","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T21:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.findlaw-admin.com\/ability-law\/dictionary\/definition\/judge.html"},"modified":"2013-01-28T16:34:14","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T21:34:14","slug":"judge","status":"publish","type":"dictionary","link":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/definition\/judge.html","title":{"rendered":"Judge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"fl-index-heading\">\n    <p>term:<\/p>\n    <h1 class=\"fl-h1 fl-mb20\"><\/h1>\n\n    <dl class=\"fl-index-heading-description-list\">\n            <dt class=\"fl-mb10\"><p class=\"fl-text-bold\">vb<\/p><\/dt>\n        <dd><p><b>judged<\/b><br \/>  <b>judg&#183;ing<\/b><br \/>  &#91;Old French <i>jugier<\/i>, from Latin <i>judicare<\/i>, from <i>judic-<\/i> <i>judex<\/i> judge, from <i>jus<\/i> right, law + <i>dicere<\/i> to decide, say&#93;<br \/>  <i>vt<\/i><br \/>  <b>1<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> to hear and decide (as a litigated question) in a court of justice &#91; a case&#93; <br \/>  <b>2<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> to pronounce after inquiry and deliberation &#91;he was <i>judged<\/i> incompetent&#93; <br \/>  <i>vi<\/i><br \/>  <b>:<\/b> to make a determination <br \/>  <b>:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/definition\/decide.html\">decide <\/a> &#91; between two accounts&#93; <br \/> n  <b>:<\/b> a public official vested with the authority to hear, determine, and preside over legal matters brought in court <br \/>  <i>;also<\/i><br \/>  <b>:<\/b> one (as a justice of the peace) who performs one or more functions of such an official <\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n    <div class=\"fl-index-heading-source\">Source: Merriam-Webster&#8217;s Dictionary of Law \u00a91996. Merriam-Webster, Incorporated. Published under license with Merriam-Webster, Incorporated.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is &#8216;Judge&#8217;? Learn more about legal terms and the law at FindLaw.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"parent":358119,"menu_order":0,"template":"app\/Http\/Controllers\/Templates\/DictionaryArticleController.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","_autodraft_ids":[],"_cloudinary_featured_overwrite":false,"_sb_is_suggestion_mode":false,"_sb_show_suggestion_boards":false,"_sb_show_comment_boards":false,"_sb_suggestion_history":"","_sb_update_block_changes":"","_is_real_time_mode":false,"_realtime_collaborators":"","cf_checklist_status":[]},"dictionary_tags":[],"class_list":["post-362322","dictionary","type-dictionary","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary\/362322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/dictionary"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary\/358119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"dictionary_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary_tags?post=362322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}