judgar

judgar

Old Spanish

Etymology

From Latin iūdicāre (“to judge”).

Verb

judgar

1. to judge someone or something
   • 1260, Anonymous, Espéculo de Alfonso X (BNM 10123, as quoted in RAE's Corpus diacrónico del español of a publication of this title by Pedro Sánchez-Prieto Borja, Universidad de Alcalá de Henares (Alcalá de Henares), 2004) paragraph 241:

     mas en las cosas que sson de juyzio de ssanta eglesia assi como ssacrilleios o pleito de casamjentos o de husuras o pleito de heregia o todo otro pleito que ssea ssobre cosa sspiritual & algunas otras cosas tenporales de que ffablamos en el quinto libro. dezimos que sse deuen judgar por ffuero de ssanta eglesia. assi como estableçieron los padres ssantos.

     But on matters that of the jurisdiction of the Holy Church, and sacrilege, or a marriage dispute, usury, heresy, or any other dispute on a spiritual matter plus certain other temporal things covered in book V, we state that they are to be judged with a fuero of the Holy Church, as the Holy Fathers established.

Descendants

• Spanish: juzgar