ripe for judgment

ripe for judgment definition - legal

n

The time when a case has proceeded no further than, but far enough, for all the facts to have been developed to the point where an intelligent judgment should be able to be reached.

Webster's New World Law Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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