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Definition of Judicial

1. Adjective. Decreed by or proceeding from a court of justice. "A judicial decision"

2. Adjective. Belonging or appropriate to the office of a judge. "Judicial robes"

3. Adjective. Relating to the administration of justice or the function of a judge. "Judicial system"

4. Adjective. Expressing careful judgment. "A biography ...appreciative and yet judicial in purpose"

Definition of Judicial

1. a. Pertaining or appropriate to courts of justice, or to a judge; practiced or conformed to in the administration of justice; sanctioned or ordered by a court; as, judicial power; judicial proceedings; a judicial sale.

Definition of Judicial

1. Adjective. Of or relating to a court of law, or to the administration of justice. ¹

2. Noun. That branch of government which is responsible for maintaining the courts of law and for the administration of justice. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Judicial

1. pertaining to courts of law [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Judicial

judgmentalism judgmentally judgmentless judgments judgship judicable judication judications judicative judicator

judicatories judicators judicatory judicature judicatures judicial (current term) judicial activism judicial admission judicial branch judicial day

judicial decision judicial doctrine judicial notice judicial principle judicial proceeding judicial review judicial sale judicial separation judicial system judicial writ

Literary usage of Judicial

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Reeve (1900)
"CHAPTER VI judicial POWER IN THE UNITED STATES AND ITS INFLUENCE ON POLITICAL SOCIETY The Anglo-Americans have retained the characteristics of judicial ..."

2. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Reeve (1862)
"In what the judicial system of the Anglo-Americans differs from that of all ... I HAVE thought it essential to devote a separate chapter to the judicial ..."

3. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1902)
"The ground had been in some measure prepared for them, at all events in Flanders, though it was precisely here that the judicial innovations of this period ..."

4. Journal by Indiana General Assembly. Senate, Indiana, General Assembly (1895)
"85 Providing for appointment of Judge of Forty-sixth judicial District 85 Providing for appointment of Prosecuting Attorney of Twenty-filth judicial ..."

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