final ruling
Conclusive official judgment
A final ruling is a decision by a court or authority that concludes a matter, leaving no further issues to resolve at that level.
Unlike preliminary or interim rulings, a final ruling settles the case and typically allows for appeal: The judge issued a final ruling in favor of the plaintiff.
The term appears in legal, regulatory, and administrative contexts.
- verdictOfficial court decision
- judgmentReasoned decision-making capacity
- decisionSettled course of action
- court orderBinding judicial directive
- decreeAuthoritative legal command
legal decision · sentence · supreme court · gavel · courtroom · appeal · binding · conclusive · definitive · irreversible · case closed · adjudication · pronouncement · closure · done deal · last call · authority · bench
- Final decisionsverdict, judgment, last word, decision, determination
- rulingssummary judgment, adjudication, binding decision, civil judgment, decree
- case endingsmotion to dismiss, dropped charges, nonsuit, without prejudice, summary judgment
- legal termstrial, legal, appeal, lawsuit, law