Title: Judiciary | government | Britannica
Headings: Judiciary
Judiciary
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Content: They also can occur, however, when judiciaries are behaving as administrators, even when they are merely ratifying agreements reached out of court. Patterns of settlement for suits between employers and employees may be more favourable to employees than formal law would seem to require, because they are influenced by de facto changes in the law that may result from the decisions by juries or trial judges who may regularly be more sympathetic to workers. Formal laws regulating child custody or financial settlements in divorce cases can similarly be altered over time as juries process the claims of the litigants before them in persistent ways. After a court decision has been made, it may or may not require enforcement. In many cases the parties accept the judgment of the court and conform their behaviour to it. In other cases a court must order a party to cease a particular activity. The enforcement of such orders is carried out by the executive branch and may require funding from the legislative branch. The judiciary has been described as the least-dangerous branch of government because it has “neither the purse nor the sword,” but, in reality, enforcement of the orders of any government institution depends on the enforcing institution’s acceptance of the issuing institution’s right to make the ruling and to have it enforced. C. Neal Tate
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…building, or other place where judicial proceedings are held. (