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n. - The system of law courts that administer justice and constitute one of the branches of government.

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Usage examples (26)
  • Adjective : judicatory power
  • The response of the supreme judicatory was in this case as ambiguous as on any former occasion.
  • "We strongly oppose some people making arbitrary criticism on China's judicatory with double standards," said the spokesman.
  • While in Canada, we have to PAY the doctors to fill out sick notes and the forms 14 pages to be examined by a medical judicatory.
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