Judicature

1. n. The right of judicial action; jurisdiction; extent jurisdiction of a judge or court.
2. n. The state or profession of those employed in the administration of justice; also, the dispensing or administration of justice.
3. n. A court of justice; a judicatory.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.