definitive sentence

There's not much one can say in rejoinder to that definitive sentence.

When a definitive sentence is declared, it is considered to be the truth.

Additionally, only 8 percent of lawsuits result in a definitive sentence or court-imposed settlement.

Mr. Colombo said definitive sentences had been handed down against more than 200 defendants in the scandal.

However grisly and regrettable, the definitive sentence sprang from a definitive deed.

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But the order explicitly stated that dissolution was enacted, "with a sad heart, not by definitive sentence, but by apostolic provision."

In most systems the definitive sentence is unique, in the precise sense that no one can be judged more than once for the same action (apart, obviously, from appeal resistance).

But apart from that and the implicit condemnation of the now deceased Cauchon (who was not mentioned by name in the definitive sentence), the tribunal did not go any further.

It is not enough that the criminal suit was started before the statute of limitations ran out: it is the definitive sentence that must be handed down before the term expires.

The most frequent case is related to irregularities found ex-post in the procedure, the most éclatant is perhaps in penal cases, when a relevant (often discharging) proof is discovered after the definitive sentence.

The sentence issued by the Appeal court of highest admitted degree immediately becomes the definitive sentence, as well as the sentence issued in minor degrees that is not resisted by the condemned or by the accusator (or is not resisted within a given time).