Inspection /(?)/

In·spec·tion

Inspection

n.
  1. The act or process of inspecting or looking at carefully; a strict or prying examination; close or careful scrutiny; investigation.
    With narrow search, and with inspection deep, Considered every creature.
  2. The act of overseeing; official examination or superintendence.

Phrases & Compounds
Trial by inspection
a mode of trial in which the case was settled by the individual observation and decision of the judge upon the testimony of his own senses, without the intervention of a jury.