judgment in rem

1. 1.

   a judgment pronounced on the status of some particular subject or property or thing (as opposed to one pronounced on persons)

   Synonymsjudgement in rem

   Antonymsjudgment in personam

   Broaderjudgment

   law

Questions about judgment in rem

What does judgment in rem mean?

judgment in rem means "a judgment pronounced on the status of some particular subject or property or thing (as opposed to one pronounced on persons)".

What is another word for judgment in rem?

Close synonyms include judgement in rem. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of judgment in rem?

The recorded antonyms are judgment in personam.

Is judgment in rem a common word?

judgment in rem is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.