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Webster 1913 Edition

Judicature

Ju′di-ca-ture

(?; 135)
,
Noun.
[F., fr. LL.
judicatura
.]
1.
The state or profession of those employed in the administration of justice; also, the dispensing or administration of justice.
The honor of the judges in their
judicature
is the king’s honor.
Bacon.
2.
A court of justice; a judicatory.
South.
3.
The right of judicial action; jurisdiction; extent jurisdiction of a judge or court.
Our Savior disputes not here the
judicature
, for that was not his office, but the morality, of divorce.
Milton.

Webster 1828 Edition

Judicature

JU'DICATURE

,
Noun.
The power of distributing justice by legal trial and determination. A court of judicature is a court invested with powers to administer justice between man and man.
1.
A court of justice; a judicatory.

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