Another word for judicature

In the Eastern Church, the early system of ecclesiastical judicature long continued.

By the Indian Councils Act 1861 the governor-general's council and also the councils at Madras and Bombay were augmented by the addition of non-official members, either natives or Europeans, for legislative purposes only; and by another act passed in the same year high courts of judicature were constituted out of the existing supreme courts and company's courts at the presidency towns.

Before the Judicature Act the king's bench and the common pleas were each presided over by a lord chief justice, and the lord chief justice of the king's bench was nominal head of all the three courts, and held the title of lord chief justice of England.

In place of the monastic judicature a jury of six bachelors and six maidens appear in the 16th century.

The judicature was likewise made elective.