Judicial Power


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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Judicial Power

 

in bourgeois state and constitutional law, the system of organs entrusted by law with the administration of justice. Bourgeois science, taking as its starting point the theory of separation of powers, considers the judicial power, as distinguished from the executive and legislative power, a separate and independent sphere of public power.

The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). © 2010 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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