The act of depriving or removing something by judicial decision; the process of taking away through legal judgment.
Present participle of 'abjudge,' describing the ongoing action of legal deprivation or judicial removal.
Medieval and Early Modern English preserved this word because courts needed to describe what they were doing—'abjudging' was the official process of legally separating people from their property.
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