in Law, signifies a judgment whereby one is deprived or put by a thing in question. To be forejudged the court, is where an officer or at- torney of any court is expelled the same for malprac- tice, or for not appearing to an action on a bill filed against him, &c. And where an attorney of the com- mon-pleas is sued, the plaintiff's attorney delivers the bill to one of the criers of the court, who calls the at- torney defendant; and solemnly proclaims aloud, that, if he does not appear thereto, he will be forejudged: likewise a rule is given by the secondary for his appear- ance; and if the attorney appears not in four days, then the clerk of the warrants strikes such an attorney off the roll of attorneys; after which he becomes liable to be arrested like any other person; but where an attorney is forejudged, he may be restored on clearing himself from his contumacy, and making satisfaction to the plaintiff, &c.