judicature

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Such competence is the concern of the judicature society, and with the aid of the American Bar Association the group has been racking up some notable successes in its campaign against the election of judges.

From Time Magazine Archive

His lordship remarked that this was a very serious crime, and, as he was desirous that sentence should be pronounced by the highest judicature of the country, judgment was reserved. 

From Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 by Mackie, Charles

You are the highest judicature in the realm.

From Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland by Stanton, Henry B.

But the higher functions of the judicature are exercised by persons whom the law has jealously fenced off from external interference and control.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various

A regulating Act was passed in 1773 remodelling the powers of the Company, and placing it completely under the control of Parliament, providing for the establishment by the Crown of courts of judicature in India.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde by Various