Sentence examples for judicial act from inspiring English sources

It was a political, not a judicial act, a travesty from start to finish.

"It is a serious political and judicial act that has shocked even me," Mr. Josipovic said of the verdicts.

What is it in the contest provision that supports the theory that that was a rogue, illegal judicial act?

It is not because of the maxim, "No one may be the judge in his own case," because a pardon is an executive action, not a judicial act.

It is a solemn judicial act that sets the course of the law for hundreds or thousands of litigants and potential litigants.

In these denominations, absolution is neither a judicial act nor a means by which the forgiveness of sins is conferred but is, instead, a statement of divine judgment and divine forgiveness.

'(F or these warrants are judicial acts, and must be granted upon examination of the fact.' 2 Hale, History of the Pleas of the Crown (1st Am. ed. 1847), 150.

Actually, it can be stated that the trend toward the progressive unification of the various existing regulations has become crystallized, since the Köbler judgment applied it to State judicial acts.

See, e.g., Imbler v. Pachtman, 424 U.S. 409 (1976) (state prosecutors possess absolute immunity with respect to the initiation and pursuit of prosecutions); Stump v. Sparkman, 435 U.S. 349 (1978) (state judge possesses absolute immunity for all judicial acts).

Justice Mathews, speaking for the Court, noted that due process under the United States Constitution differed from due process in English common law in that the latter applied only to executive and judicial acts, whereas the former also applied to legislative acts.

Additional data come from textual sources, including local historiography (from the mid-17th century) and notarial documents and judicial acts (from 1263 until 1500).