judicature
Noun
Meaning
The state or profession of those employed in the administration of justice; also, the dispensing or administration of justice.
A court of justice; a judicatory.
The right of judicial action; jurisdiction; extent jurisdiction of a judge or court.
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No nation can answer for the equity of proceedings in all its inferior courts. It suffices to provide a supreme judicature by which error and partiality may be corrected.
No system of judicature can be suggested in which occasionally failure to insure complete justice may not arise.
Equity's primacy in England was later enshrined in the Judicature Acts of the 1870s, which also served to fuse the courts of equity and the common law (although emphatically not the systems themselves) into one unified court system.
Churchill would write down his opinion of each issue (e.g. the Judicature Acts of 1873 and 1875) before reading the debate, and then record his opinion again.
He regretted that the High Court of J&K has not been declared a Constituent of the Constitution of India and still called High Court of J&K whereas all other High Courts in the country are theHigh Courts of Judicature.
Grand juries were introduced by the Judicature Act 1874 and have been used on a very limited number of occasions.