Judgment
in law, a determination, decision, or sentence of a judge or court in any case, civil or criminal. In logic, the comparing together in the mind two in the mind twe of the notions, or ideas, which are the objects of apprehension, whether complex or incomplex, and pronouncing that they agree or disagree with each other, or that one of them belongs or does not belong to the other. Judgment is therefore afis therefore af firmative or negative; as, snow is white ; all white men are not Europeans. In metaphysics, that faculty of the human mind by which judgments are formed.
Kant defines it as "the faculty by which the particular is conceived as contained under the universal ."
In Scripture, (1) Singular: (a) The sentence of a judge. (b) Justice (Is . xxxiii: 5). (c) The punishment which justice inflicts; specially, a calamity sent by God as a penal infliction on account of national or other sin (Exod. xii: 12; II Chron. xx: 9, xxii: 8). (2) Plural:
The civil and criminal enactments of the Mosaic code, as distinguished from the ceremonial and the moral laws (Exod. xii: 12; Ps. cxix: 7, 13, 20, 39, 43, 62, , 43, 62 , etc.) Judgment of God, a term applied to several of the old forms of trial by ordeal, as single combat, walking upon red-hot plowshares, etc. as a