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| | SUPREME COURT OF JUDICATURE - LoveToKnow Article on SUPREME COURT OF JUDICATURE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | , in England, a court of law established by the Judicature Act 1873, by section 3 of which it was provided that the high court of chancery, the courts of kings bench, common pleas, and exchequer, the high court of admiralty, the court of probate and the divorce court, should be united under this name. |
 | | By section 4, the Supreme Court was to consist of two divisions, one to be called the high-court of justice and the other the court of appeal. |
 | | It has to decide whether a measure passed by the legislative powers is unconstitutional or not, and it may thus have to veto the deliberate resolutions of both houses of Congress and the president. |
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