All judicature synonyms

noun judicature

• administration — Administration is the range of activities connected with organizing and supervising the way that an organization or institution functions.
• arbitration — Arbitration is the judging of a dispute between people or groups by someone who is not involved.
• authority — The authorities are the people who have the power to make decisions and to make sure that laws are obeyed.
• command — If someone in authority commands you to do something, they tell you that you must do it.
• commission — If you commission something or commission someone to do something, you formally arrange for someone to do a piece of work for you.
• control — Control of an organization, place, or system is the power to make all the important decisions about the way that it is run.
• discretion — the power or right to decide or act according to one's own judgment; freedom of judgment or choice: It is entirely within my discretion whether I will go or stay.
• district — a division of territory, as of a country, state, or county, marked off for administrative, electoral, or other purposes.
• domination — an act or instance of dominating.
• influence — the capacity or power of persons or things to be a compelling force on or produce effects on the actions, behavior, opinions, etc., of others: He used family influence to get the contract.
• power — a heavy blow or a loud, explosive noise.
• prerogative — an exclusive right, privilege, etc., exercised by virtue of rank, office, or the like: the prerogatives of a senator.
• purview — the range of operation, authority, control, concern, etc.
• rule — a principle or regulation governing conduct, action, procedure, arrangement, etc.: the rules of chess.
• scope — extent or range of view, outlook, application, operation, effectiveness, etc.: an investigation of wide scope.
• sovereignty — the quality or state of being sovereign, or of having supreme power or authority.
• supervision — the act or function of supervising; superintendence.
• territory — any tract of land; region or district.
• zone — any continuous area that differs in some respect, or is distinguished for some purpose, from adjoining areas, or within which certain distinctive circumstances exist or are established: The decisions were formulated in a zone of uncertainty. The temperature lies outside the danger zone.
• area — An area is a particular part of a town, a country, a region, or the world.
• bailiwick — the area over which a bailiff has jurisdiction
• bounds — a limit; boundary (esp in the phrase know no bounds)
• circuit — An electrical circuit is a complete route which an electric current can flow around.
• compass — A compass is an instrument that you use for finding directions. It has a dial and a magnetic needle that always points to the north.
• confines — limits; boundaries
• dominion — the power or right of governing and controlling; sovereign authority.
• empire — An extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme authority, formerly especially an emperor or empress.
• extent — The area covered by something.
• field — Cyrus West, 1819–92, U.S. financier: projector of the first Atlantic cable.
• hegemony — leadership or predominant influence exercised by one nation over others, as in a confederation.
• inquisition — an official investigation, especially one of a political or religious nature, characterized by lack of regard for individual rights, prejudice on the part of the examiners, and recklessly cruel punishments.
• magistracy — the office or function of a magistrate.
• might — physical strength: He swung with all his might.
• orbit — the curved path, usually elliptical, described by a planet, satellite, spaceship, etc., around a celestial body, as the sun.
• province — an administrative division or unit of a country.
• range — the extent to which or the limits between which variation is possible: the range of steel prices; a wide range of styles.
• reach — to get to or get as far as in moving, going, traveling, etc.: The boat reached the shore.
• reign — the period during which a sovereign occupies the throne.
• right — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
• say — assay.
• slot — a long thin, narrow strip of wood, metal, etc., used as a support for a bed, as one of the horizontal laths of a Venetian blind, etc.
• sphere — Geometry. a solid geometric figure generated by the revolution of a semicircle about its diameter; a round body whose surface is at all points equidistant from the center. Equation: x 2 + y 2 + z 2 = r 2 . the surface of such a figure; a spherical surface.
• sway — to move or swing to and fro, as something fixed at one end or resting on a support.
• turf — a layer of matted earth formed by grass and plant roots.
• fairness — the state, condition, or quality of being fair, or free from bias or injustice; evenhandedness: I have to admit, in all fairness, that she would only be paid for part of the work.
• lawfulness — allowed or permitted by law; not contrary to law: a lawful enterprise.
• honesty — the quality or fact of being honest; uprightness and fairness.
• integrity — adherence to moral and ethical principles; soundness of moral character; honesty.
• law — software law
• truth — the true or actual state of a matter: He tried to find out the truth.