Judge
A judge is an official who presides over court proceedings, either alone or as part of a panel of judges. The powers, functions, method of appointment, discipline, and training of judges vary widely across different jurisdictions. The judge is supposed to conduct the trial impartially and in an open court. The judge hears all the witnesses and any other evidence presented by the parties of the case, assesses the credibility and arguments of the parties, and then issues a ruling on the matter at hand based on his or her interpretation of the law and his or her own personal judgment. In some jurisdictions, the judge's powers may be shared with a jury. In inquisitorial systems of criminal investigation, a judge might also be an examining magistrate.
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... Party) before the Senate Judiciary Committee during the Supreme Court nomination hearings for Judge Sonia Sotomayor ... which chronicled Major League Baseball's labor dispute of 1994 and the impact of the judge's decision which forced the disputants back to the bargaining table ... Cone said, "It can be a good thing to have a judge in district court or a justice on the United States Supreme Court who recognizes that the law cannot always be separated from the realities involved in the ...
... Judge Roy Moore is Coming to Dinner by Tom Wofford is a 2004 play about two gay men who decide to marry in California and return home to Alabama to tell their families ... Judge Moore, though he had not seen the play, issued a statement condemning it as the "result of federal activism in our court system" and saying that same-sex marriage ...
... The Dark Judges are recurring villains in the Judge Dredd science fiction comic strip in the UK comic 2000 AD ... They also appear in the 2003 computer game Judge Dredd Dredd Vs ... They are Judge Death, Judge Fire, Judge Fear and Judge Mortis ...
... The Biblical Book of Judges revolves around a succession of leaders who were known as "Judges" (Hebrew shoftim שופטים) but who - aside from their judicial ... The same word is, however, used in contemporary Israel to denote judges whose function and authority is similar to that in other modern countries ...
More definitions of "judge":
- (verb): Form an opinion of or pass judgment on.
Example: "I cannot judge some works of modern art"
- (verb): Determine the result of (a competition).
- (noun): An authority who is able to estimate worth or quality.
Synonyms: evaluator
- (verb): Judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time).
Synonyms: estimate, gauge, approximate, guess
- (verb): Put on trial or hear a case and sit as the judge at the trial of.
Example: "The judge tried both father and son in separate trials"
Synonyms: adjudicate, try
Famous quotes containing the word judge:
“To judge from a single conversation, he made the impression of a narrow and very English mind; of one who paid for his rare elevation by general tameness and conformity. Off his own beat, his opinions were of no value.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“You can make the best of it and be content, or you can complain, it makes no difference. What does it matter that human beings judge the things that exist?”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)
“To judge the appearances we receive of things, we should need a judicatory instrument; to verify this instrument, we should need a demonstration; to rectify this demonstration, we should need an instrument: so here we are arguing in a circle.
Seeing the senses cannot decide our dispute, being themselves full of uncertainty, we must have recourse to Reason; there is no reason but must be built upon another reason, so here we are retreating backwards to all eternity.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)