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Seguestration :: Seguestration (n.) A prerogative process empowering certain commissioners to take and hold a defendant's property and receive the rents and profits thereof, until he clears himself of a contempt or performs a decree of the court..

Appeal :: Appeal (v. t.) To make application for the removal of (a cause) from an inferior to a superior judge or court for a rehearing or review on account of alleged injustice or illegality in the trial below. We say, the cause was appealed from an inferior court..

Arraign :: Arraign (v. t.) To call or set as a prisoner at the bar of a court to answer to the matter charged in an indictment or complaint.

Bar :: Bar (n.) The whole body of lawyers licensed in a court or district; the legal profession.

Judiciary :: "Judiciary (n.) That branch of government in which judicial power is vested; the system of courts of justice in a country; the judges, taken collectively; as, an independent judiciary; the senate committee on the judiciary..

Chancellor :: Chancellor (n.) A judicial court of chancery, which in England and in the United States is distinctively a court with equity jurisdiction..

Courtesy :: Courtesy (v. t.) To treat with civility.

Estreat :: Estreat (n.) A true copy, duplicate, or extract of an original writing or record, esp. of amercements or penalties set down in the rolls of court to be levied by the bailiff, or other officer..

Record :: Record (v. t.) The various legal papers used in a case, together with memoranda of the proceedings of the court; as, it is not permissible to allege facts not in the record..

Venire Facias :: Venire facias () A judicial writ or precept directed to the sheriff, requiring him to cause a certain number of qualified persons to appear in court at a specified time, to serve as jurors in said court..

Romance :: Romance (n.) A species of fictitious writing, originally composed in meter in the Romance dialects, and afterward in prose, such as the tales of the court of Arthur, and of Amadis of Gaul; hence, any fictitious and wonderful tale; a sort of novel, especially one which treats of surprising adventures usually befalling a hero or a heroine; a tale of extravagant adventures, of love, and the like..

Assessorial :: Assessorial (a.) Of or pertaining to an assessor, or to a court of assessors..

Seraglio :: Seraglio (n.) The palace of the Grand Seignior, or Turkish sultan, at Constantinople, inhabited by the sultan himself, and all the officers and dependents of his court. In it are also kept the females of the harem..

Decreet :: Decreet (n.) The final judgment of the Court of Session, or of an inferior court, by which the question at issue is decided..

Courtliness :: Courtliness (n.) The quality of being courtly; elegance or dignity of manners.

Plaint :: Plaint (n.) A private memorial tendered to a court, in which a person sets forth his cause of action; the exhibiting of an action in writing..

Court-martial :: Court-martial (n.) A court consisting of military or naval officers, for the trial of one belonging to the army or navy, or of offenses against military or naval law..

Minister :: Minister (n.) A representative of a government, sent to the court, or seat of government, of a foreign nation to transact diplomatic business..

Courtbred :: Courtbred (a.) Bred, or educated, at court; polished; courtly..

Feodary :: Feodary (n.) An ancient officer of the court of wards.

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