Word Finder - judges

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A public official whose duty it is to administer the law, especially by presiding over trials and rendering judgments; a justice.

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A person who decides the fate of someone or something that has been called into question.

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A person officiating at a sports event or similar.

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At a boxing match, the decision of the judges is final.

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A person who evaluates something or forms an opinion.

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She is a good judge of wine.

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To sit in judgment on; to pass sentence on.

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A higher power will judge you after you are dead.

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To sit in judgment, to act as judge.

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Justices in this country judge without appeal.

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To form an opinion on.

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I judge a man’s character by the cut of his suit.

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To arbitrate; to pass opinion on something, especially to settle a dispute etc.

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We cannot both be right: you must judge between us.

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To have as an opinion; to consider, suppose.

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I judge it safe to leave the house once again.

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To form an opinion; to infer.

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I judge from the sky that it might rain later.

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To criticize or label another person or thing.

The judges are strictly supervised and appeal is allowed.

The judges are elected by employers and workmen of a certain standing.

The judges' decision might, however, be appealed against.

In order to relieve the circuit judges the legislature has established by special acts inferior courts, generally with criminal jurisdiction only, in nine counties of the state.

This is very clearly the case in the book of Judges.

Teachers, cops, girls, judges and fellow gangsters had all shared the frustration of not knowing Billie from Willie.

He quickens, and He judges.

The king's advisers now urged him to arrest Shaftesbury; he was seized on the 2nd of July 1681, and committed to the Tower, the judges refusing his petition to be tried or admitted to bail.

He has command of the army and navy, and appoints federal ministers and judges.

In case of dispute the judges dealt first with the contract.

The judicial department in 1910 was composed of a supreme court of six judges, eight circuit courts.'

Five of the seven judges in 1837 were his appointees, and the majority of them were Southerners who had been educated under Democratic influences at a time when the slavery controversy was forcing the party to return to its original strict construction views.

Smith's large series including " Bible," " David," " Decalogue," " Judges," " Kings."

Sessions of the supreme court are held in each county once a year in addition to the general session which meets at some central place selected by the judges.

The court of chancery is held by the judges of the supreme court, the county by a supreme court judge with the aid of two associates elected by the people of the county.

The assistant judges, the sheriff and the state's attorney are elected annually by popular vote.

The county treasurer is elected by the assistant judges.

Propositions to establish the judiciary on a more permanent tenure were also voted down in 1814, 1822, 1857 and 1870, and the state still elects its judges for two years' terms. On its own suggestion, the council of censors was abolished in 1870 and the present method of amending the constitution was adopted.

But it is plain that, once convinced of the necessity for the king's execution, he was the chief instrument in overcoming all scruples among his judges, and in resisting the protests and appeals of the Scots.

The tribunal was composed, not of judges - for all unanimously refused to sit on it - but of fifty-two men drawn from among the king's enemies.

The judges and lawyers began to question the legality of his ordinances, and to doubt their competency to convict royalist prisoners of treason.

The Code made known, in a vast number of cases, what that decision would be, and many cases of appeal to the king were sent back to the judges with orders to decide in accordance with it.

The more important cases, especially those involving life and death, were tried by a bench of judges.

The judges might be satisfied of its existence and terms by the evidence of the witnesses to it, and then issue an order that whenever found it should be given up. Contracts annulled were ordered to be broken.

The decision given was embodied in writing, sealed and witnessed by the judges, the elders, witnesses and a scribe.

The judges at Babylon seem to have formed a superior court to those of provincial towns, but a defendant might elect to answer the charge before the local court and refuse to plead at Babylon.

The judges of all kinds are very poorly paid.

Frederick placed judges of his own appointment, with the title of podest, in all the Lombard commu1ies; and this stretch of his authority, while it exacerbated his foes, forced even his friends to join their ranks against him.

His title was derived from that of Frederick Barharossas judges; but he had no dependence on the empire.

Where the faithful had had recourse to the bishop, no appeal was to be allowed, and the judges were to command execution of the episcopal decree.

If that prelate think the cause should be heard again, he is to appoint judges; if otherwise, the original judgment is to be confirmed.

Ecc. et Cler., excluded bishops from accusations before secular judges and commanded such accusations to be speedily brought before the tribunal of other bishops.

If the cause be ecclesiastical, the civil judges are to take no part in the inquiry.

The recursus ad principem, in some form or other of appeal or application to the sovereign or his lay judges, was at the end of the middle ages well known over western Europe.

This recourse in England sometimes took the form of the appeal to the king given by the Constitutions of Clarendon, just mentioned, and later by the acts of Henry VIII.; sometimes that of suing for writs of prohibition or mandamus, which were granted by the king's judges, either to restrain excess of jurisdiction, or to compel the spiritual judge to exercise jurisdiction in cases where it seemed to the temporal court that he was failing in his duty.

In Catalonia " Pragmatics," letters from the prince, issued to restrain jurisdiction assumed by ecclesiastical judges contrary to the customs of the principality.

But they could only be heard on the spot by judges delegate.

After the inconclusive proceedings at the realm-council of Merton (1236), when spiritual and temporal lords took opposite views, the king's judges went a step further and thenceforward submitted this particular question to a jury.

Canon 127 of 1603 provided that the judges must be learned in the civil and ecclesiastical laws and at least masters of arts or bachelors of laws.

In 1831 the pope enacted that in all the dioceses of the then Pontifical States, the court of first instance for the criminal causes of ecclesiastics should consist of the ordinary and four other judges.

Causes could be evoked to the tsar himself, " when any partiality of the judges in any affair in which they themselves were interested was discovered" (ib.).

The general assembly elects the five judges who compose the high court.

There are civil, commercial and criminal courts in Montevideo, a departmental court in each departmental capital, and a justice of the peace in each of 205 judicial districts into which the republic is divided, with sub-district courts under deputy judges in addition.

All the proceedings were conducted in writing, and the judges were not confronted with either the parties or the witnesses until they emerged to deliver judgment.

This secrecy, combined with the fact that the judges were very ill paid, led to universal bribery and corruption.

The judges were not so by profession; they were merely members of the official class (chinovniks), the prejudices and vices of which they shared.

Moreover, a democratic element was introduced by the adoption of the jury system and - so far as one order of tribunal was concerned - the election of judges.

The first of these, based on the English model, are the courts of the elected justices of the peace, with jurisdiction over petty causes, whether civil or criminal; the second, based on the French model, are the ordinary tribunals of nominated judges, sitting with or without a jury to hear important cases.

From the town The judge (ispravnik), who, in spite of the principle laid ordinary down in 1864, combines judicial and administrative functions, an appeal lies (as in the case of the justices of the peace) to an assembly of such judges; from these again there is an appeal to the district court (okrugniya sud), consisting of three judges; 4 from this to the court of appeal (sudebniya palata); while over this again is the senate, which, as the supreme court of cassation, can send a case for retrial for reason shown.

The confusion of the judicial and administrative functions was introduced again by the appointment of officials as judges.