Cadilesker

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A cadilesker, cadilescher, kadi-ul leşker or kadi-ul asker was a chief judge in the Turkish Empire, so named originally because his jurisdiction extended to the cases of soldiers, who were later tried only by their own officers.

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  1. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)