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Get to know Justiciary better with 4 real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like justiciar or judge.

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Justiciary in a sentence

Justiciary meaning

  1. A judgeship: a judge's jurisdiction, power, or office.
  2. The judiciary: a collective term for the court system or the body of judges, justices etc.
  3. One who administers justice

Synonyms of Justiciary

justiciar judge justice jurist magistrate jurisdiction

Related words

Other words often associated with Justiciary or its synonyms:

functionary official adjudicator think administration resolve territory decide evaluator power dominion judicature

Using Justiciary

  • The main meaning on this page is: A judgeship: a judge's jurisdiction, power, or office. | The judiciary: a collective term for the court system or the body of judges, justices etc. | One who administers justice
  • Useful related words include: justiciar, judge, justice, jurist.
  • In the example corpus, justiciary often appears in combinations such as: of justiciary.

Context around Justiciary

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 27 words
  • Position in the sentence: 0 start, 4 middle, 0 end
  • Sentence types: 4 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often after:

scotland 1×

Sentence patterns with Justiciary

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

court of justiciary for criminal 1× court of justiciary is the 1× court of justiciary said that 1× court of justiciary scotland s 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

in cameron v 1× the court consisted 1× the court of 1× the high court 1×

Common sentence endings:

court in scotland 1× court of scotland 1× piracy jure gentium 1× preses presiding member 1×

Words around Justiciary

Just before it in the word index:

justiciar 4 justicialista 2 justicialist 2 justiciable 9 justiciability 3 justicia 5

Just after it in the word index:

justifiable 123 justifiably 62 justification 623 justifications 68 justificatory 7 justified 989

Similar in corpus frequency:

aaai 6 aani 6 aarne 6 aarya 6 aasb 6 aasen 6

Corpus analysis for Justiciary

  • In this selection, "justiciary" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, scotland stand out and add context to how "justiciary" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include court of justiciary for criminal and court of justiciary is the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "justiciary" sits close to words such as aaai, aani and aarne, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with justiciary

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

The High Court of Justiciary is the supreme criminal court in Scotland. (12 words)

The court consisted of three judges from the High Court of Justiciary (Scotland's highest criminal court), of whom Tinwald ( Justice Clerk ) was elected preses (presiding member). (27 words)

The Court of Session (for civil matters) and the High Court of Justiciary (for criminal matters) would continue as the most senior in Scotland and collectively would become the Supreme Court of Scotland. (33 words)

Longer example sentences

In Cameron v HM Advocate, 1971 SLT 333, the High Court of Justiciary said that that Schedule supplemented the existing law and did not seek to restrict the scope of the offence of piracy jure gentium. (36 words)

The Court of Session (for civil matters) and the High Court of Justiciary (for criminal matters) would continue as the most senior in Scotland and collectively would become the Supreme Court of Scotland. (33 words)

The court consisted of three judges from the High Court of Justiciary (Scotland's highest criminal court), of whom Tinwald ( Justice Clerk ) was elected preses (presiding member). (27 words)

Example sentences (4)

The Court of Session (for civil matters) and the High Court of Justiciary (for criminal matters) would continue as the most senior in Scotland and collectively would become the Supreme Court of Scotland.

In Cameron v HM Advocate, 1971 SLT 333, the High Court of Justiciary said that that Schedule supplemented the existing law and did not seek to restrict the scope of the offence of piracy jure gentium.

The court consisted of three judges from the High Court of Justiciary (Scotland's highest criminal court), of whom Tinwald ( Justice Clerk ) was elected preses (presiding member).

The High Court of Justiciary is the supreme criminal court in Scotland.

Common combinations with justiciary

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

  • of justiciary 4×

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "justiciary" in a sentence?
An example: "The Court of Session (for civil matters) and the High Court of Justiciary (for criminal matters) would continue as the most senior in Scotland and collectively would become the Supreme Court of Scotland." This page contains 4 example sentences with the word "justiciary" from authentic English texts.
What does "justiciary" mean?
Justiciary means: A judgeship: a judge's jurisdiction, power, or office.
What are synonyms of "justiciary"?
Common synonyms of "justiciary" include: justiciar, judge, justice, jurist, magistrate, jurisdiction.
How many example sentences with "justiciary" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains 4 example sentences with "justiciary", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.