a. Also 7 extra-iuditiall. [f. L. extrā outside + jūdici-um judgment + -AL.]
1. Lying outside the proceedings in court; forming no part of the case before the court. Of an opinion, confession, etc.: Not delivered from the bench, not made in court, informal.
1630. in Rushw., Hist. Coll. (1659), I. 47. The accusation was extra-judicial, and out of Court.
1651. W. G., trans. Cowel’s Inst., 237. The Plaintiff … requires him [Defendant] to come to make an extrajudiciall satisfaction.
a. 1715. Burnet, Own Time (1766), II. 20. No extrajudicial confession could be allowed in a Court.
1871. Markby, Elem. Law, § 60. The opinion of the judge … is considered as extra-judicial.
2. Outside the ordinary course of law or justice; not legally authorized; unwarranted.
1647. Clarendon, Hist. Reb., III. (1843), I. 87/2. Some rigorous and extrajudicial determinations in cases of plantations.
1706. Rushw., in Burton’s Diary (1828), III. 47, note. By an extra-judicial order … the Lieutenant-general was commanded to suffer none but the keepers to speak to him.
1785. Paley, Mor. Philos. (1818), I. 267. That extrajudicial discipline, which supplies the defects … of law.
1849. J. Grant, Mem. Kirkaldy, xxiv. 273. The extra-judicial murder of his comrade.
