JUDGMENT

n. act of judging; forming of an opinion; assessment, opinion; verdict, sentence of a court; decree, sentence; ability to judge, good sense

A judgment (or judgement; `see spelling note below), in a legal context, is synonymous with the formal decision made by a court following a lawsuit. At the same time the court may also make a range of court orders, such as imposing a sentence upon a guilty defendant in a criminal matter, or providing a remedy for the plaintiff in a civil law matter.
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Judgment, n 1. a legal finding. n 2. the ability to discriminate between or among two or more states or conditions. [more]Judgment - Community and Resources

Noun
1. an opinion formed by judging something; "he was reluctant to make his judgment known"; "she changed her mind"
(synonym) judgement, mind
(hypernym) opinion, sentiment, persuasion, view, thought
(hyponym) decision, determination, conclusion
2. the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event; "they criticized my judgment of the contestants"
(synonym) judgement, assessment
(hypernym) act, human action, human activity
(hyponym) adjudication
(derivation) pronounce, label, judge
3. (law) the determination by a court of competent jurisdiction on matters submitted to it
(synonym) judgement, judicial decision
(hypernym) due process, due process of law
(hyponym) reversal
(derivation) judge, adjudicate, try
(classification) law, jurisprudence
4. the cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions
(synonym) judgement, judging
(hypernym) decision making, deciding
(hyponym) prejudgment, prejudgement
(derivation) estimate, gauge, approximate, guess, judge
5. the legal document stating the reasons for a judicial decision; "opinions are usually written by a single judge"
(synonym) opinion, legal opinion, judgement
(hypernym) legal document, legal instrument, official document, instrument
(hyponym) concurring opinion
(derivation) judge, adjudicate, try
(classification) law, jurisprudence
6. the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions
(synonym) judgement, sound judgment, sound judgement, perspicacity
(hypernym) trait
(hyponym) objectivity, objectiveness
7. ability to make good judgments
(synonym) sagacity, sagaciousness, judgement, discernment
(hypernym) wisdom, sapience
(hyponym) eye

(v. i.)
The power or faculty of performing such operations (see 1); esp., when unqualified, the faculty of judging or deciding rightly, justly, or wisely; good sense; as, a man of judgment; a politician without judgment.
  

(v. i.)
The final award; the last sentence.
  

(v. i.)
The conclusion or result of judging; an opinion; a decision.
  

(v. i.)
The act of judging; the operation of the mind, involving comparison and discrimination, by which a knowledge of the values and relations of thins, whether of moral qualities, intellectual concepts, logical propositions, or material facts, is obtained; as, by careful judgment he avoided the peril; by a series of wrong judgments he forfeited confidence.
  

(v. i.)
The act of determining, as in courts of law, what is conformable to law and justice; also, the determination, decision, or sentence of a court, or of a judge; the mandate or sentence of God as the judge of all.
  

(v. i.)
That power or faculty by which knowledge dependent upon comparison and discrimination is acquired. See 2.
  

(v. i.)
That act of the mind by which two notions or ideas which are apprehended as distinct are compared for the purpose of ascertaining their agreement or disagreement. See 1. The comparison may be threefold: (1) Of individual objects forming a concept. (2) Of concepts giving what is technically called a judgment. (3) Of two judgments giving an inference. Judgments have been further classed as analytic, synthetic, and identical.
  

(v. i.)
A calamity regarded as sent by God, by way of recompense for wrong committed; a providential punishment.