JUDICATURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does judicature mean? 

• JUDICATURE (noun)
  The noun JUDICATURE has 4 senses:

1. an assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business

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

3. the act of meting out justice according to the law

4. the position of judge

  Familiarity information: JUDICATURE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JUDICATURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

court; judicature; tribunal

Hypernyms ("judicature" is a kind of...):

assembly (a group of persons who are gathered together for a common purpose)

Meronyms (parts of "judicature"):

Bench (the magistrate or judge or judges sitting in court in judicial capacity to compose the court collectively)

Meronyms (members of "judicature"):

jury (a body of citizens sworn to give a true verdict according to the evidence presented in a court of law)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "judicature"):

trial court (the first court before which the facts of a case are decided)

traffic court (a court that has power to prosecute for traffic offenses)

high court; state supreme court; supreme court (the highest court in most states of the United States)

superior court (any court that has jurisdiction above an inferior court)

Star Chamber (a former English court that became notorious for its arbitrary methods and severe punishments)

Rota ((Roman Catholic Church) the supreme ecclesiastical tribunal for cases appealed to the Holy See from diocesan courts)

quarter sessions (a local court with criminal jurisdiction and sometimes administrative functions)

probate court (a court having jurisdiction over the probate of wills and the administration of estates)

police court (a court that has power to prosecute for minor offenses and to bind over for trial in a superior court anyone accused of serious offenses)

moot court (a mock court where law students argue hypothetical cases)

military court (a judicial court of commissioned officers for the discipline and punishment of military personnel)

kangaroo court (an irregular unauthorized court)

juvenile court (a court having jurisdiction over dependent and delinquent children)

Inquisition (a former tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church (1232-1820) created to discover and suppress heresy)

inferior court; lower court (any court whose decisions can be appealed to a higher court)

F.I.S.C.; Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (a secret federal court created in 1978 by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act; responsible for authorizing wiretaps and other forms of electronic surveillance and for authorizing searches of suspected spies and terrorists by the Department of Justice or United States intelligence agencies)

federal court (a court establish by the authority of a federal government)

court of domestic relations; domestic relations court; family court (a court in some states in the United States that has jurisdiction over family disputes (especially those involving children))

divorce court (a court having jurisdiction over the termination of marriage contracts)

criminal court (a court having jurisdiction over criminal cases)

consistory (a church tribunal or governing body)

chancery; court of chancery (a court with jurisdiction in equity)

assizes; court of assize; court of assize and nisi prius (the county courts of England (replaced in 1971 by Crown courts))

appeals court; appellate court; court of appeals (a court whose jurisdiction is to review decisions of lower courts or agencies)

International Court of Justice; World Court (a court established to settle disputes between members of the United Nations)

court; court of justice; court of law; law court; lawcourt (a tribunal that is presided over by a magistrate or by one or more judges who administer justice according to the laws)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

judicatory; judicature; judicial system; judiciary

Hypernyms ("judicature" is a kind of...):

scheme; system (a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "judicature"):

Federal Judiciary (the judiciary of the United States which is responsible for interpreting and enforcing federal laws)

Holonyms ("judicature" is a part of...):

authorities; government; regime (the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The act of meting out justice according to the law

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

administration; judicature

Hypernyms ("judicature" is a kind of...):

justice (judgment involved in the determination of rights and the assignment of rewards and punishments)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The position of judge

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

judgeship; judicature

Hypernyms ("judicature" is a kind of...):

berth; billet; office; place; position; post; situation; spot (a job in an organization)

 Context examples 

I described that extraordinary care always taken of their education in arts and arms, to qualify them for being counsellors both to the king and kingdom; to have a share in the legislature; to be members of the highest court of judicature, whence there can be no appeal; and to be champions always ready for the defence of their prince and country, by their valour, conduct, and fidelity.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

It is upon this account that the image of Justice, in their courts of judicature, is formed with six eyes, two before, as many behind, and on each side one, to signify circumspection; with a bag of gold open in her right hand, and a sword sheathed in her left, to show she is more disposed to reward than to punish.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)