CONSIDERATUM EST PER CURIAM

consideratum est per curiam (k<<schwa>>n-sid-<<schwa>>-ray-t<<schwa>>m est p<< schwa>>r kyoor-ee-<<schwa>>m). [Latin] Hist. It is considered by the court. • This was the formal language preceding the judgment of a common-law court. — Sometimes shortened to consideratum est. Cf. IDEO CONSIDERATUM EST.

“A judgment is the decision or sentence of the law, given by a court of justice, as the result of proceedings instituted therein for the redress of an injury. The language of the judgment is not, therefore, that ‘it is decreed,’ or ‘resolved,’ by the court, but that ‘it is considered by the court,’ consideratum est per curiam, that the plaintiff recover his debt, etc. In the early writers, considerare, consideratio always means the judgment of a court.” 1 John Bouvier, Bouvier’s Law-Dictionary 619 (8th ed. 1914). [Blacks Law 8th]