V.   Adjudication

Adjudication is the action by which a Sovereign Power or one duly granted Sovereign Authority reviews evidence, arguments, petitions and matters of controversy between opposing parties in order to determine the appropriate Rights and Obligations, Judgment and any Sentence or Penalties. A matter by which all parties agree to an independent thirty party to do the same is called an Arbitration.

The word Adjudication from the Latin adjudicatio meaning “judgment; sentence”.

Adjudication is sourced from the ancient claim of certain Divine Rights of Sovereign Power and the maxim that "no man may judge another". Thus Adjudication rests on the proper authority and succession of Sovereign Power to duly appointed judges and justices under proper oath in order for such power and sentences to be lawful and legal.

The power of Adjudication ceases to exist where an official claiming the right to Adjudication fails to demonstrate an effective oath and the proper instruments by which such authority claiming Divine provenance may be granted.