Important Legal Definitions
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Per Curiam
Judicial Orders, Injunctions & Precedents
Definition
"By the court." A judgment delivered collectively by an appellate court where the opinion is rendered by the court as a whole, rather than authored under the name of an individual judge.
Example
The Supreme Court of India pronounced its unanimous 1,045-page judgment in the Ayodhya Title Dispute (M. Siddiq v. Mahant Suresh Das) as a per curiam opinion.