🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

rejeição judicial

Pronunciation / Transliteration: ʁeʒejˈsɐ̃w̃ ʒudiˈsaw

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Judicial Rejection/dʒuˈdɪʃ.əl rɪˈdʒɛk.ʃən/
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"A rejeição judicial encerrou o processo."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The formal refusal or dismissal by a court or judge of a legal petition, motion, claim, or appeal.

    "The defense anticipated the judicial rejection of their primary evidence motion."
  2. 2

    An official judicial decision declining to recognize or enforce a legal instrument or agreement.

    "The judicial rejection of the contract rendered the disputed clause null and void."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term combines 'judicial', derived from the Latin 'judicialis' (from 'judex', meaning judge), and 'rejection', derived from the Latin 'rejectionem' (from 'rejicere', meaning to throw back or rebuff). It emerged in modern legal discourse to describe formal court-sanctioned refusals of motions, appeals, or petitions.

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