Arrest of judgment

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(Law)	the staying or stopping of a judgment, after verdict, for legal cause. The motion for this purpose is called a motion in arrest of judgment.
(Law)	See under Arrest, n.

See also: Arrest Judgment

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To work this sportive vein still further, Mr Brass, by his counsel, moved in arrest of judgment that he had been led to criminate himself, by assurances of safety and promises of pardon, and claimed the leniency which the law extends to such confiding natures as are thus deluded.

The Old Curiosity Shop by Dickens, Charles View in context

What with motions for new trials, and in arrest of judgment, and what not, a prisoner might be here for twelve months, I take it, might he not?

American Notes for General Circulation by Dickens, Charles View in context

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