They exercised complete judicialauthority among their own people.
This gave them right of membership in the Sanhedrin and certain judicial functions, and also the title of rabbi, introduced after the Temple's fall by Jochanan ben Zakkai.
In fact, the Resh Galutha was given even heartier endorsement, and was treated as a prince by the government, with his civil and judicial powers increased, making the Jewish community in Babylonia almost a State in itself.
These gradually came to form the two great divisions of the scholarly activities of the Rabbis, the judicial division called Halacha (legal decision), the ethical styled Agada.
By it Alaska was divided into three judicial divisions, and that which embraces northwestern Alaska and the new gold-fields was allotted to Arthur H.
This section of the country was now the Council City Precinct and Recording District, a subdivision of the Second Judicial Division, as designated by the Alaskan code.
Enjoying the proud distinction of being notaries public for Alaska, and being therefore quasi-judicial officers, we were frequently called upon to take acknowledgments, affidavits, and depositions.
With the exceptions that his jurisdiction in civil matters is limited to a certain amount, that he can neither grant an injunction nor try title to real estate, his powers, judicial and otherwise, are plenary and varied.
This feature of it I thought very unjust, and published in a Utica paper a review of the case in terms not quite so judicial as I ought to have chosen.
The executive, legislative, and judicial each constitutes a separate coordinate department of the Government, and each is independent of the others.
Our judicial system, revenue laws, laws regulating trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes, and the protection of our laws generally should be extended over them.
The law led to lamentable confusion, says the 'Gazeta,' in judicial notions as to personal inviolability.
Throughout the ten years of his two terms of office he invariably viewed the questions and problems before him from a judicial standpoint.
The districts were simply established for judicial and legal purposes, and each of them bore the name of the principal town within its limits--viz.
They were at once magistrates, judges and policemen, and sometimes had to carry their own judicial sentences into execution.
The party of pro-slavery reaction was for the moment in the ascendant; and as by an irresistible impulse, the Supreme Court of the United States was swept from its hitherto impartial judicial moorings into the dangerous seas of polities.
The judicial mind of this country, State and Federal," said McLean, "has agreed on no subject within its legitimate action with equal unanimity as on the power of Congress to establish Territorial governments.
We believe as much as Judge Douglas (perhaps more) in obedience to and respect for the judicial department of government.
This point has at length been finally decided by the highest judicial tribunal of the country.
As a final effort to obtain justice, they appealed by writ of error to the Supreme Court of the United States, the highest judicial tribunal of the nation.
Times may have changed, public feeling may have changed, but principles have not and do not change; and in my judgment there can be no safe basis for judicial decision but in those principles which are immutable.
In a judicial divorce, the judge may, in the interests of the children, take them away from their father and assign them to the care of some other person.
The grounds upon which judicial divorce may be granted seem very trivial measured by European standards, but, on the other hand, they are a distinct gain over the former practice.
In the Privy Council itself, Kozma Horvath's opposition to the extra-judicial prosecution was all in vain.
Footnote 40: A banquet was the usual prelude to judicial as to all other public proceedings in Hungary.
This party are chargeable with mutilating the Judicial Testimony emitted in Scotland, 1761; and also with changing the terms of communion, and obtruding a mutilated formula upon an unsuspecting people, contrary to due order.
The Associate Reformed Church, by judicialdeclaration and uniform practice, is opposed to this method of testimony-bearing.
Many of those with whom we were wont to take pleasure in displaying a banner jointly, and in a judicial capacity, are now, alas!
Three of these professedly appear under the banner of a standing judicial testimony, which they severally emitted to the public.
Early in the nineteenth century, measures were taken by the Reformed Presbytery, in the United States, for re-exhibiting the principles of a covenanted reformation, in a judicial way.
To take judicial proceedings against accessories to the plot of the 28th June who are on Serbian territory; delegates of the Austro-Hungarian Government will take part in the investigation relating thereto; '7.
He was quite unfit, he said, to return to hisjudicial work so soon.
Cyril was merely aware of the usual formalities and of a judicial wig making its way, with slow dignity, to the vacant bench.
His widow had recourse to the law, and ultimately the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council ordered the burial of Guibord's remains in the Roman Catholic cemetery.
Strip mercy of ruin to its author, before you affirm upon a judicial punishment of death (as then it was) cruelty in the adviser or ignobility in the approver.
Vain it was now to hope for a cheaper restoration, since the very first lightening of their judicial punishment would seem to them a reason for relapsing, by seeming to argue that there had been two principles.
The judicial power,' says the Constitution, 'shall extend to all cases in law and equity arising under this Constitution, the laws of the United States and the treaties made or which shall be made under their authority.
The consuls in these states were invested with special judicial powers, though not considered by the laws of the United States judicial officers.
The regular judicial tribunals continue to act in cases not affecting the military occupation.
In Britain, the judicial power, in the last resort, resides in the House of Lords, which is a branch of the legislature; and this part of the British government has been imitated in the State constitutions in general.
This exercise of judicial discretion, in determining between two contradictory laws, is exemplified in a familiar instance.
Here also the firmness of the judicial magistracy is of vast importance in mitigating the severity and confining the operation of such laws.
Maryland has adopted the maxim in the most unqualified terms; declaring that the legislative, executive, andjudicial powers of government ought to be forever separate and distinct from each other.
The entire legislature can perform no judiciary act, though by the joint act of two of its branches the judges may be removed from their offices, and though one of its branches is possessed of the judicial power in the last resort.
In like manner the judicial authority of the federal judicatures is declared by the Constitution to comprehend certain cases particularly specified.
The Senate, which is a branch of the legislative department, is also a judicial tribunal for the trial of impeachments.
Their true import, as far as respects individuals, must, like all other laws, be ascertained by judicial determinations.
Anita in the dusk of the balcony, waiting to hear she knew not what, was a judicial white goddess, formidably still, frightfully potential.
Judicial murders were frequent in the city, and minor forms of oppression, such as usury, spoliation of the unprotected, and robbery, were of daily occurrence.
By this simple judicial arrangement the ethical demands of Jehovah's holiness will be made effective in the ordinary life of the community.
There the idea that the son should bear the iniquity of the father was received without challenge and applied without misgiving in judicial procedure.
When they were following the bent of their natural inclinations by practising idolatry and perpetrating judicial murders in the city, their cry was, "Jehovah hath forsaken the land; Jehovah seeth it not.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "judicial" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
