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Judiciary   /dʒudˈɪʃiˌɛri/   Listen
Judiciary

noun
1.
Persons who administer justice.  Synonym: bench.
2.
The system of law courts that administer justice and constitute the judicial branch of government.  Synonyms: judicatory, judicature, judicial system.



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"Judiciary" Quotes from Famous Books



... consequently inconsistent metaphysic and critique which the very attitude of science to reality marks out. Let us not be deceived by an apparent analogy between natural things and human things. Here we are not in the judiciary domain, where the description of fact and the judgment on the fact are two distinct things, distinct for the very simple reason that above the fact, and independent of it, there is a law promulgated by a legislator. Here the laws are internal to the facts and relative to the lines that ...
— Creative Evolution • Henri Bergson

... with the judiciary, so long held as one of high responsibility and honorable position, is now held merely as a medium of miserable speculation and espionage. It is an elective office, the representative holding for four years. The present incumbent was elected more ...
— Manuel Pereira • F. C. Adams

... Bishop apprehending an appeal to the judiciary on the part of the injured citizens of Murray county, had a jury drawn to suit him and appointed one of his band Clerk of the Superior Court. For these acts, the Governor and officers of the Central Bank rewarded him with an office in the Bank of the State, since which his own jury found ...
— The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus • American Anti-Slavery Society

... with its checks and balances—legislative, executive and judiciary—has proved far from satisfactory, since it results either in a deadlock between the various authorities, or else some one of them, as for example, the courts in the United States, assume the final authority. In neither case is it possible ...
— The Next Step - A Plan for Economic World Federation • Scott Nearing

... some misgivings as to the propriety of my course, I have decided to print the article on my Life as a Lawyer, as it appears in the "Memoirs of the Judiciary and the Bar of New England" (for January, 1901), published by the Century Memorial Publishing Company, ...
— Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 1 • George Boutwell


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