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means The ability to weigh a situation and form a sound opinion or decision — or, formally, the ruling a court hands down.

from From Old French 'jugement', built on 'juger' (to judge), tracing back to Latin 'judicare' — itself a fusion of 'jus' (law, right) and 'dicare' (to pronounce, to declare). So baked into the word's bones is literally 'to declare the law.' The spelling split later: British English kept the 'e' in 'judgement', American English mostly dropped it to 'judgment', though law itself — stubborn, tradition-bound — often keeps the 'e' on both sides of the Atlantic.