judicatory

Pertaining to judgement, or to passing a sentence.

judicatory tribunals

power to reject in an authoritative or judicatory way

By which a judgement can be made; decisive, critical.

To judge of the apparances that we receive of subjects, we had need have a judicatorie instrument: to verifie this instrument we should have demonstration; and to approve demonstration, an instrument; thus are we ever turning round.

A court or tribunal.

Holonym: judiciary

The administration of justice by judges and courts; judicial process.

However, when They had ſaid all they could againſt Him, and he all for himſself that need to be ſaid, and no ſuch Crime appearing as the Lords, as the Supreme Court of Judicatory, would take upon them to judge him to be worthy of death, they reſorted to their Legislative Power […]