WordNet
n. a legal proceeding in a court; a judicial contest to determine and enforce legal rights [syn: litigation]
Usage examples of "judicial proceeding".
The duties of social life, and the incidents of judicial proceeding, were the ordinary subject of these consultations, and the verbal or written opinion of the juris-consults was framed according to the rules of prudence and law.
The ancient apologists of Christianity have censured, with equal truth and severity, the irregular conduct of their persecutors who, contrary to every principle of judicial proceeding, admitted the use of torture, in order to obtain, not a confession, but a denial, of the crime which was the object of their inquiry.
I order that no judicial proceeding may continue until and unless hearings are held that substantiate the evidence under the normal rules of evidence in the civil courts, which are the courts that have jurisdiction over licensing.
I cannot dream that there should be at the last day any such Judicial proceeding, or calling to the Bar, as indeed the Scripture seems to imply, and the literal Commentators do conceive: for unspeakable mysteries in the Scriptures are often delivered in a vulgar and illustrative way.
Clintons lies under oath in a judicial proceeding were such a shock to the legal system that just weeks before every Senate Democrat would vote to keep him in office, the entire Supreme Court boycotted Clintons State of the Union addressone of many historical firsts in the Clinton years.
The requirement that we make available evidence needed in a judicial proceeding supersedes our own need to maintain a confidential relationship with our customers.
Everyone in the chamber was staring at them, and Blaen suddenly remembered that he had a judicial proceeding on hand.