The Collaborative International Dictionary
Justiceship \Jus"tice*ship\, n.
The office or dignity of a justice.
--Holland.
Wiktionary
n. The office or dignity of a justice.
Usage examples of "justiceship".
Though the beginning of this era is often demarcated by the nomination of Earl Warren to the chief justiceship in 1953, its gradual evolution actually began decades earlier with the nomination of Louis Brandeis as an associate justice in 1916.
Brennan later told Justice Frankfurter that even though Vanderbilt had said with bravado that he would only take the chief justiceship, Vanderbilt still wanted an appointment to cap his judicial career.
As an object lesson a better appointment to high office has rarely been made than that of Fuller to the chief justiceship of the great court.
He was in political life but a brief period again, before, in his thirty-second year, President Madison pressed his acceptance of a vacant Associate Justiceship in the Supreme Court of the United States, which had been declined by Levi Lincoln and by John Quincy Adams, then in Russia.
Two different theories, both enunciated during the Chief Justiceship of John Marshall, have been utilized to justify these results.
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, at a banquet in his honor given by the Suffolk Bar Association, Boston, March 7, 1900, upon his elevation to the Chief Justiceship of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.
He was paid the mentioned sum in advance and was promised-falsely, of course-the Grand Justiceship of Skane.