Definition of court

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Court (n.) Any formal assembling of the retinue of a sovereign; as, to hold a court..

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Courtesy :: Courtesy (v. i.) To make a respectful salutation or movement of respect; esp. (with reference to women), to bow the body slightly, with bending of the knes..
Plenipotentiary :: Plenipotentiary (n.) A person invested with full power to transact any business; especially, an ambassador or envoy to a foreign court, with full power to negotiate a treaty, or to transact other business..
Discourtesy :: Discourtesy (n.) Rudeness of behavior or language; ill manners; manifestation of disrespect; incivility.
Gentility :: Gentility (n.) The quality or qualities appropriate to those who are well born, as self-respect, dignity, courage, courtesy, politeness of manner, a graceful and easy mien and behavior, etc.; good breeding..
Se–ora :: Se–ora (n.) A Spanish title of courtesy given to a lady; Mrs.; Madam; also, a lady..
Coax :: Coax (v. t.) To persuade by gentle, insinuating courtesy, flattering, or fondling; to wheedle; to soothe..
Bencher :: Bencher (n.) One of the senior and governing members of an Inn of Court.
Actuary :: Actuary (n.) A registrar or clerk; -- used originally in courts of civil law jurisdiction, but in Europe used for a clerk or registrar generally..
Court-craft :: Court-craft (n.) The artifices, intrigues, and plottings, at courts..
Equitable :: Equitable (a.) That can be sustained or made available or effective in a court of equity, or upon principles of equity jurisprudence; as, an equitable estate; equitable assets, assignment, mortgage, etc..
Appear :: Appear (v. i.) To stand in presence of some authority, tribunal, or superior person, to answer a charge, plead a cause, or the like; to present one's self as a party or advocate before a court, or as a person to be tried..
Subrector :: Subreader (n.) An under reader in the inns of court, who reads the texts of law the reader is to discourse upon..
Parliament :: Parliament (n.) In France, before the Revolution of 1789, one of the several principal judicial courts..
Oyez :: Oyez (interj.) Hear; attend; -- a term used by criers of courts to secure silence before making a proclamation. It is repeated three times.
Return :: Return (n.) The rendering back or delivery of writ, precept, or execution, to the proper officer or court..
Judicature :: Judicature (n.) The right of judicial action; jurisdiction; extent jurisdiction of a judge or court.
Report :: Report (v. t.) An account or statement of a judicial opinion or decision, or of case argued and determined in a court of law, chancery, etc.; also, in the plural, the volumes containing such reports; as, Coke's Reports..
Probate :: Probate (n.) Official proof; especially, the proof before a competent officer or tribunal that an instrument offered, purporting to be the last will and testament of a person deceased, is indeed his lawful act; the copy of a will proved, under the seal of the Court of Probate, delivered to the executors with a certificate of its having been proved..
Court :: Court (n.) The persons officially assembled under authority of law, at the appropriate time and place, for the administration of justice; an official assembly, legally met together for the transaction of judicial business; a judge or judges sitting for the hearing or trial of causes..
Dies Juridicus :: Dies juridicus () A court day.
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