procedural sphere, e.g. law officer (as in Agent judiciaire du Trésor public), legal aid (aide judiciaire, assistance judiciaire, asistencia judicial), legal co-operation (assistance judiciaire, auxilio judicial), legal proceedings (poursuites judiciaires)- if judicial is used in such cases the translation will be correct but not as a rule reflect usage in English-speaking countries. In the case of poursuites judiciaires it may be necessary to draw a distinction between two kinds of legal proceedings, judicial and extrajudicial, in which case judicial proceedings should obviously be used. 2/ In a further set of terms the words judiciaire/judicial do not require translation because the notion they convey is implied automatically in the English rendering: see the entries for costas judiciales, decreto judicial, defensQr...3udicial, frais et dépens judiciaires, pièce, judiciaire, providencia judicial, sentencia judicial. In others, e.g. poder general judicial and police judiciaire/policia judicial, it is expressed differently. Í/ 1/ References to this note will be found in the body of the glossary in the entries for all these words, but not as a rule in those for terms in which they occur. 2/ The English term judicial refers to both contentious and non-contentious court proceedings. In a very broad sense, but not the generally accepted one, it also covers proceedings such as arbitrations, tribunal hearings and other out-of-court determinations of a dispute which are usually classified as quasi-judicial or extrajudicial. In this expatnded sense it corresponds to jurisdictional, adjudicatory (see 3.). 2/ This also applies to agent judiciaire when it means agent de police judiciaire. - 1144 - 2. Juridictionnel/jurisdiccional These can always be translated as jurisdictional, meaning "relating to jurisdiction", but where the meaning is "relating to the determination of a dispute" jurisdiction is best replaced by adjudicatory (syn. adjudicated) or even judicial; see acte juridictionnel, competencia correctiva, jurisdiccional y administrativa, fonction,Juridictionnelle» recours juridictionnel, solution juiridiçtionnell.g. 