3. The right of judicial action; jurisdiction; extent jurisdiction of a
judge or court.
Our Savior disputes not here the judicature, for that was not his
office, but the morality, of divorce.
Milton.
Ju*di"cial (?), a. [L. judicialis, fr. judicium judgment, fr. judex
judge: cf. OF. judicial. See Judge.]
1. Pertaining or appropriate to courts of justice, or to a judge;
practiced or conformed to in the administration of justice; sanctioned
or ordered by a court; as, judicial power; judicial proceedings; a
judicial sale. "Judicial massacres." Macaulay.
Not a moral but a judicial law, and so was abrogated.
Milton.