Justiciary

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  • noun. A high judicial officer in medieval England.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Pertaining to the law; legal; relating to the administration of justice.
  • noun. An administrator of justice; a justice or judge.
  • noun. In early English history, the chief administrator of both government and justice.
  • noun. In theology, one who trusts in the justice or uprightness of his own conduct.
  • noun. Administration of justice or of criminal law; judiciary.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. An old name for the judges of the higher English courts.
  • noun. the supreme criminal court, having jurisdiction over the whole of Scotland.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A justiciar
  • noun. The office of a justiciar
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. formerly a high judicial officer
  • noun. the jurisdiction of a justiciar
  • Word Usage
    "The Edinburgh high court of justiciary heard that Taylor had "no concept" of how dangerous it was to give a child methadone."
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