WordNet
n. the system of law courts that administer justice and constitute the judicial branch of government [syn: judiciary, judicature, judicatory]
Usage examples of "judicial system".
Spurred by his constituents' expressions of respectful affection for Judge Crease in the handling of a recent case of wrongful death, Senator Bilk stated that 'In exemplifying the highest ideals of our great American judicial system without fear of favor, Judge Thomas Crease leaves us all in his eternal debt, and like his illustrious father before him, now he belongs to the ages' did you, God!
We hope, above all else, that our faith in the law enforcement and judicial system is justified.
The Directory puts its creatures in their places: suddenly, the departmental, cantonal, municipal and judicial system, which was American, becomes Napoleonic so that the local officials, instead of being delegates of the people, are government delegates.
I wanted to get the ACIP into our judicial system to save people’.
Whatever confidence he'd once had in the judicial system-an entity of which he'd only been vaguely aware to this point-had been shattered.
When the Coastal Republic arose, a judicial system was built upon the only model the Middle Kingdom had ever known, that being the Confucian.
Okay, even though the Chinese Coastal Republic is no longer strictly or even vaguely Confucian, we still run our judicial system that way- we've had it for a few thousand years, and we think it's not half bad.
It had probably been fifteen years since Jeffreys could list, from memory, all the men he had murdered through the judicial system.
We bought burgers and fries and a case of beer and went to her small motel room where we ate and then drowned our fears and hatred of a corrupt judicial system.
You might just say: 'Our judicial system is quite different,' or, 'The defendant is questioned before he is sentenced in our country,' or, 'In our country the condemned man is informed of his sentence,' or 'We haven't used torture since the Middle Ages'—.
They have more of a vested interest in this system than any civilian juror has in the civilian judicial system.
As you study the simplicity of our judicial system, you'll see what I mean.