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A judge is a person who presides over court proceedings, either alone or as a part of a panel of judges.In an adversarial system, the judge hears all the witnesses and any other evidence presented by the barristers or solicitors of the case, assesses the credibility and arguments of the parties, and then issues a ruling in the case based on their interpretation of the law and their own ...
Justiciar is the English form of the medieval Latin term justiciarius or justitiarius (meaning "judge" or "justice"). [1] [2] The Chief Justiciar was the king's chief minister, roughly equivalent to a modern Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Judge is an occupational surname of British origin. [1] The first recorded instance of the surname is in 1309 in the Middle, English Occupation Register, Worcester , England . [ 2 ]
These agreements were set in English land-court with the sound of a gavel, a word which may come from the Old English: gafol (meaning "tribute"). [2] Gavel would be prefixed to any non-monetary payment given to a lord (for example: gavel-malt ) and can be found as a prefix to other terms such as gavelkind , a system of partible inheritance ...
The title of justice is derived from the Latin root jus (sometimes spelled ius) meaning something which is associated with law or is described as just. [2] It is different from the word judge in that different suffixes were added to form both words, and that the usage of the term justice predates that of judge. [3]
The judges (sing.Hebrew: שופט, romanized: šop̄ēṭ, pl. שופטים šop̄əṭīm) whose stories are recounted in the Hebrew Bible, primarily in the Book of Judges, were individuals who served as military leaders of the tribes of Israel in times of crisis, in the period before the monarchy was established.
In Mexico's Federal Law System, a magistrado (magistrate) is a superior judge (and the highest-ranking State judge), hierarchically beneath the Supreme Court Justices (Ministros de la Corte Suprema). The magistrado reviews the cases seen by a judge in a second term if any of the parties disputes the verdict.
A trial at the Old Bailey in London as drawn by Thomas Rowlandson and Augustus Pugin for Microcosm of London (1808–11) The International Court of Justice. A court is an institution, often a government entity, with the authority to adjudicate legal disputes between parties and administer justice in civil, criminal, and administrative matters in accordance with the rule of law.