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  • noun Plural form of judicature.

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  • For, though punishment be annexed to personality, and personality to consciousness, and the drunkard perhaps be not conscious of what he did, yet human judicatures justly punish him; because the fact is proved against him, but want of consciousness cannot be proved for him.

    An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 2007

  • For, though punishment be annexed to personality, and personality to consciousness, and the drunkard perhaps be not conscious of what he did, yet human judicatures justly punish him; because the fact is proved against him, but want of consciousness cannot be proved for him.

    God, Aids & Circumcision Hill, George 2005

  • Inform yourself of the powers of the States, and of the nature and extent of the several judicatures; the particular articles of trade and commerce of Bremen, Harburg, and Stade; the details and value of the mines of the

    Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

  • While the chiefs had this resemblance of royalty, they had little inclination to appeal, on any question, to superior judicatures.

    A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland 2003

  • These judicatures may investigate and punish not only libels against the Government and magistracy of this kingdom, but, as has been repeatedly experienced, of publications defamatory of those in whose hands the administration of foreign Governments is placed.

    Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Various

  • This liberty is justly dear to every British subject; the Constitution admits of no previous restraints upon publications of any description; but there exist judicatures wholly independent of the executive, capable of taking cognizance of such publications as the law deems to be criminal; and which are bound to inflict the punishment the delinquents may deserve.

    Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Various

  • The judicatures of Cagliari, Torres, and Gallura were suppressed by the Pisans.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

  • Sardinia, moreover, was abandoned to its fate by the Byzantines more than the peninsula, and consequently the tradition which dates in the sixth century the origin of the three (later four) judicatures, into which the island was later divided, may have a historical foundation.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

  • —Have those, who say so, looked at the expenses of the National Assembly itself? of the municipalities? of the city of Paris? of the increased pay of the two armies? of the new police? of the new judicatures?

    Paras. 375-407 1909

  • They are to content themselves with what is plain in their commission, as ordained of God to be his minister unto men for good, while they approve themselves the doers of that which is good in the sight of men, and whereof earthly and worldly judicatures are capable to make a clear and perfect judgment: in which case the magistrate is to be for praise and protection to them.

    A Healing Question, by Sir Henry Vane 1909

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