Literary notes about judicial (AI summary)
The term judicial in literature is used in a multifaceted way, both referring to formal legal authority and evoking a particular demeanor or style. It appears in contexts where established bodies exercise formal adjudicatory powers—whether in historical narratives of legal institutions and trials [1, 2, 3] or in discussions highlighting the structured application of law and procedure [4, 5, 6]. At the same time, the adjective judicial is employed more figuratively to describe expressions, looks, and attitudes that suggest impartiality and a measured, thoughtful character [7, 8, 9]. This dual usage underscores the word’s versatility in portraying both the technicalities of law and the nuanced temperament of its carriers.
- In both they exercised judicial powers; and in the theatre and the court, the same men judged all causes, capital and not capital.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations by Marcus Tullius Cicero - The entire judicial power of the Union was centred in one tribunal, which was denominated the Supreme Court of the United States.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville - The third characteristic of the judicial power is its inability to act unless it is appealed to, or until it has taken cognizance of an affair.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville - Probably it was something in the nature of a judicial proceeding.
— from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle - To a third, a mercantile city, the abolition of war contributions, [10] and the establishment of its internal judicial authority.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 by James Tod - It may easily be proved that the Union could not adapt the judicial power of the States to its wants.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville - Grandfather smoothed his beard and looked judicial.
— from My Ántonia by Willa Cather - He leaned back, put his finger-tips together, and assumed his most impassive and judicial expression.
— from The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle - “It's not the money,” he began, but meeting his brother's glance, direct, shrewd, judicial, he stopped.
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. by John Galsworthy
