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Definition of Judicial branch
1. Noun. The branch of the United States government responsible for the administration of justice.
Group relationships: U.s., U.s. Government, United States, United States Government, Us Government
Generic synonyms: Arm, Branch, Subdivision
Category relationships: Jurisprudence, Law
Definition of Judicial branch
1. Noun. The branch of government which is concerned with the administration of justice through the interpretation of the law. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Judicial Branch
Literary usage of Judicial branch
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A View of the Constitution of the United States of America by William Rawle (1829)
"OF CHECKS AND RESTRAINTS ON THE judicial branch. FROM these general views of the
judicial power, we collect that it is in the nature of a principle ..."
2. An Introduction to the Study of the Government of Modern States by William Franklin Willoughby (1919)
"CHAPTER XV THE judicial branch Of the several branches of government none has
received so little attention at the hands of students of political science as ..."
3. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1905)
"... or any other that is expressly delegated to the judicial branch of our state
government, and according to the decision In this case the judicial branch ..."
4. The American Citizen by Charles Fletcher Dole (1892)
"The courts, or the judicial branch of the government, is intended to answer these
questions and to pronounce what the law is. It is like the umpire on the ..."
5. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings [of The] Annual Meeting by National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association (1921)
"It is the purpose of this paper to discuss some of the tendencies in administration
under the judicial branch of the government and some under the executive ..."
6. School Civics: An Outline Study of the Origin and Development of Government by Frank David Boynton (1904)
"THE judicial branch OF THE STATE GOVERNMENT ARTICLE IV JUDICIAL. — THE COURTS I.
Introductory The third great branch of the government of Ohio is the one ..."
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