judicatory
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If then an inferior judicatory offend or injure us, we ought to carry the matter to another that has more influence and authority.
From The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London by
This hope, however rational and sanguine, was totally disappointed in 1838, when the table of the supreme judicatory might be said to be crowded with petitions, letters, remonstrances, memorials, protests and appeals.
From Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive by Presbytery, The Reformed
It would appear that the duty and honour of presiding commonly devolved on the senior member of the judicatory.
From The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution by Killen, W. D. (William Dool)
A Committee of Safety was the highest judicatory, and Allen was Col.
From The Olden Time Series, Vol. 5: Some Strange and Curious Punishments Gleanings Chiefly from Old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts by Brooks, Henry M. (Henry Mason)
These annual mass meetings or General Assemblies continued to be held, for many centuries after their first establishment, at the city of York, and were, during all that period, the supreme judicatory of the fraternity.
From The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry by Mackey, Albert G.
The terms of the merger will be presented to the judicatories next June for final ratification.
From Time Magazine Archive
Several of our judicatories have already taken this position.
From Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject by Elliott, E. N.
Sure we are, there are many just grounds of suspicion and jealousy of general persons,367 who have chief trust in our armies and this the public judicatories are not ignorant of.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh
Likeas all lieges are bound to maintain the King's Majesty's royal person, and authority, the authority of Parliaments, without the which neither any laws, or lawful judicatories can be established, Act 130, Act 131, Parl.
This passage also illustrates the progress of the changes which were taking place about the period under review in the constitution of ecclesiastical judicatories.
From The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution by Killen, W. D. (William Dool)
