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Definition of Judiciary

1. Noun. Persons who administer justice.

2. Noun. The system of law courts that administer justice and constitute the judicial branch of government.

Definition of Judiciary

1. a. Of or pertaining to courts of judicature, or legal tribunals; judicial; as, a judiciary proceeding.

2. n. That branch of government in which judicial power is vested; the system of courts of justice in a country; the judges, taken collectively; as, an independent judiciary; the senate committee on the judiciary.

Definition of Judiciary

1. Noun. The court system and judges considered collectively, the judicial branch of government. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Judiciary

1. [n -RIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Judiciary

judicial notice judicial principle judicial proceeding judicial review judicial sale judicial separation judicial system judicial writ judicialization judicialize

judicialized judicializes judicializing judicially judiciaries judiciary (current term) judicious judiciously judiciousness judiciousnesses

judies judo judogi judogis judoist judoists judoka judokas judolike judos

Literary usage of Judiciary

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

1. Journal by New York (State). Legislature. Senate (1921)
"Mr. Thayer moved that the committee on the judiciary he discharged from the consideration of Senate 'bill (No. 1554, Int. No. 1258) entitled "An act to ..."

2. A History of the People of the United States: From the Revolution to the by John Bach McMaster (1885)
"But the judiciary remained, and with the judiciary they began, for a Republican hated nothing so much as a judge of a Federal court. ..."

3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"The only question presented by the record in the case relates to the jurisdiction of the court below, arising under the llth section of the judiciary act of ..."

4. The Works of Daniel Webster by Daniel Webster, Edward Everett (1851)
"THE judiciary.* AT the first session of the Nineteenth Congress a bill was introduced into the House of Representatives, by Mr. Webster, from the Committee ..."

5. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent (1832)
"OF THE judiciary DEPARTMENT. As the judiciary power is intrusted with the ... In the survey which is to be taken of the judiciary establishment of the ..."

6. The Works of Daniel Webster by Daniel Webster, Edward Everett (1851)
"THE judiciary.* AT the first session of the Nineteenth Congress a bill was introduced into the House of Representatives, by Mr. Webster, from the Committee ..."

7. Journal by New York (State). Legislature. Senate, House of representatives, United States, Congress (1849)
"which was referred to -th« committee on the judiciary. •Mr. Geddes presented^the petition of the supervisors of Onondaga asking for a repeal of the act ..."

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