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Presentment :: Presentment (n.) The official notice (formerly required to be given in court) of the surrender of a copyhold estate.

Hall :: Hall (n.) A name given to many manor houses because the magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion; a chief mansion house.

Chancery :: Chancery (n.) In England, formerly, the highest court of judicature next to the Parliament, exercising jurisdiction at law, but chiefly in equity; but under the jurisdiction act of 1873 it became the chancery division of the High Court of Justice, and now exercises jurisdiction only in equity..

Court :: Court (v. t.) To invite by attractions; to allure; to attract.

Courteousness :: Courteousness (n.) The quality of being courteous; politeness; courtesy.

Qualificator :: Qualificator (n.) An officer whose business it is to examine and prepare causes for trial in the ecclesiastical courts.

Law :: Law (n.) An oath, as in the presence of a court..

Court-plaster :: Court-plaster (n.) Sticking plaster made by coating taffeta or silk on one side with some adhesive substance, commonly a mixture of isinglass and glycerin..

Concurrent :: Concurrent (a.) Joint and equal in authority; taking cognizance of similar questions; operating on the same objects; as, the concurrent jurisdiction of courts..

Vest :: Vest (n.) To clothe with authority, power, or the like; to put in possession; to invest; to furnish; to endow; -- followed by with before the thing conferred; as, to vest a court with power to try cases of life and death..

Lawsuit :: Lawsuit (n.) An action at law; a suit in equity or admiralty; any legal proceeding before a court for the enforcement of a claim.

Cancelli :: Cancelli (v. t.) An interwoven or latticed wall or inclosure; latticework, rails, or crossbars, as around the bar of a court of justice, between the chancel and the nave of a church, or in a window..

Internuncio :: Internuncio (n.) A representative, or charge d'affaires, of the pope at a foreign court or seat of government, ranking next below a nuncio..

Review :: Review (n.) The judicial examination of the proceedings of a lower court by a higher.

Exchequer :: Exchequer (n.) One of the superior courts of law; -- so called from a checkered cloth, which covers, or formerly covered, the table..

Recovery :: Recovery (n.) The obtaining in a suit at law of a right to something by a verdict and judgment 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..

Embrace :: Embrace (n.) To attempt to influence corruptly, as a jury or court..

Board :: Board (n.) A table at which a council or court is held. Hence: A council, convened for business, or any authorized assembly or meeting, public or private; a number of persons appointed or elected to sit in council for the management or direction of some public or private business or trust; as, the Board of Admiralty; a board of trade; a board of directors, trustees, commissioners, etc..

Parliament :: Parliament (n.) In France, before the Revolution of 1789, one of the several principal judicial courts..

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