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Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Administration of justice.
  • noun The position, function, or authority of a judge.
  • noun The jurisdiction of a law court or judge.
  • noun A court or system of courts of law.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The power of administering justice by legal trial and determination; judicial authority.
  • noun A court of justice; a judicatory.
  • noun Legality; lawfulness, as constituted by statute or enactment.
  • noun Extent of jurisdiction of a judge or court.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The state or profession of those employed in the administration of justice; also, the dispensing or administration of justice.
  • noun A court of justice; a judicatory.
  • noun The right of judicial action; jurisdiction; extent jurisdiction of a judge or court.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The administration of justice by judges and courts.
  • noun The position or status of a judge.
  • noun The jurisdiction of a court.
  • noun A court, or other assembly that conducts judicial business.
  • noun A system of such courts.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the system of law courts that administer justice and constitute the judicial branch of government
  • noun the act of meting out justice according to the law
  • noun an assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business
  • noun the position of judge

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Medieval Latin iūdicātūra, from feminine future participle of Latin iūdicāre, to judge; see judge.]

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Examples

  • Say what you will about poor reasoning, florid and hypertechnical writing, and insane reliance on irrelevant precedent that no longer intersects with the societal context that are all too common in American judicature; at least one can figure out what the holding of the case really means.

    Scrivener's Error 2003

  • The present system of judicature is founded on the great law reform conceived by the genius of Lord Cairns, and completed by his illustrious successor, Lord Selborne.

    The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council 1909

  • Pericles, and the flagrant excesses that ensued allowed the people themselves to listen to the branding and terrible satire upon the popular judicature, which is still preserved to us in the comedy of

    Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • I had the honor, in conjunction with many far wiser men, to contribute a very small assistance, but, however, some assistance, to the forming the judicature which is to try such questions.

    The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763

  • Now as to the judgment itself, these things are said: "They do not judge him to death in the court of judicature, that is, in his own city, nor in that that is at Jabneh; but they bring him to the great Consistory that is at

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

  • You say also, that the life of De Hagenbach was taken by a judicature over which you had no control, and exercised none — let a protocol be drawn up, averring these circumstances, and, as far as possible, proving them.

    Anne of Geierstein 2008

  • MoldovaSupreme Court; Constitutional Court (the sole authority for constitutional judicature)

    Judicial branch 2008

  • Dicey repeatedly emphasized the significance of ordinary courts in maintaining the rule of law: "In England the rule of law is coterminous with the cognizance of ordinary courts: it is the rule of the judicature."

    Balkinization 2006

  • Judicial branch: Supreme Court; Constitutional Court (the sole authority for constitutional judicature)

    Moldova 2008

  • As this measure, enforced with all the authority of power, was new in Scottish judicial proceedings, though now so frequently resorted to, it was exclaimed against by the lawyers on the opposite side of politics, as an interference with the civil judicature of the country, equally new, arbitrary, and tyrannical.

    The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

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