judicature
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9.9
- noun
- /ˈdʒuːdɪkətʃər/
- Formal
:
judicatura
- The role of a judge is central to the judicature, as they interpret the law and ensure justice is served.
Examples
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She was showing the mobile center, fashioned after bookmobiles, in March at the midyear meeting of the American Judicature Society in Redondo Beach, Calif.
Academic text (2001) -
In the absence of an equivalent to Section 15(d)(4) of the basic law, Judicature, there was almost a general understanding that the High Court of Justice had no power to directly intervene in the jurisdiction of religious courts.
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In compliance with the Mexico Agreements, the bill mentioned in the preceding paragraph must include the regulation for the Judicial Training School, which will operate under the responsibility of the National Council of the Judicature.
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In 1823, New York's Supreme Court of Judicature treated its clause as prohibiting methods of punishment never before used.
Academic text (2004) -
The most recent try for merit selection, on the ballot in Florida's 2000 elections, was promoted through a public education campaign by the state bar and other groups, including the ABA and the American Judicature Society.
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More than half of that was in the year 2000 alone—in large part triggered by the American Judicature Society's November 1999 Conference on Unrepresented Litigants.
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"We ought to encourage apology for those individuals for whom it's therapeutic, and we ought to allow juries to consider this," says Daniel Shuman, a law professor at Southern Methodist University in Dallas and author of an upcoming article in Judicature magazine on apology and tort law.
Academic text (1999) -
Bickley countered by arguing that the magistrates had followed the law, as well as a recent decision of New York's Supreme Court of Judicature, in issuing the warrant after the churchwarden initially refused to pay Poyer.
Academic text (1990) -
However, most Republicans, concurring with Benjamin Franklin in his famous last publication, "An Account of the Supremest Court of Judicature in Pennsylvania," would probably agree that personal libel or slander might be prosecuted in any court, especially if the accusations were blatant lies.
Academic text (2016) -
Secondly, Section 15(c) of the Basic Law: Judicature confers upon the High Court of Justice general jurisdiction "to hear matters in which it deems it necessary to grant relief for the sake of justice and which are not within the jurisdiction of any other court, belt Mishpat or Beit Din."
Academic text (1991)
Synonyms
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6.5
A system of courts and judges that applies the law in a country
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3.9
The courts and judges who use laws to make fair decisions about cases
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4.2
The part of government that says what laws mean and decides legal cases
A group of courts that make legal decisions
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Morphology
Etymology
Judicature comes from the Latin root judic-, from judicare meaning 'to judge', and is like the words judge and justice. So, judicature is the system of courts and judges who make decisions about the law.