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Courtly :: Courtly (adv.) In the manner of courts; politely; gracefully; elegantly.

Represent :: Represent (v. t.) To stand in the place of; to supply the place, perform the duties, exercise the rights, or receive the share, of; to speak and act with authority in behalf of; to act the part of (another); as, an heir represents his ancestor; an attorney represents his client in court; a member of Congress represents his district in Congress..

Homologation :: Homologation (n.) Confirmation or ratification (as of something otherwise null and void), by a court or a grantor..

Profert :: Profert (n.) The exhibition or production of a record or paper in open court, or an allegation that it is in court..

Process :: Process (n.) The whole course of proceedings in a cause real or personal, civil or criminal, from the beginning to the end of the suit; strictly, the means used for bringing the defendant into court to answer to the action; -- a generic term for writs of the class called judicial..

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..

Divorce :: Divorce (n.) A legal dissolution of the marriage contract by a court or other body having competent authority. This is properly a divorce, and called, technically, divorce a vinculo matrimonii..

Challenge :: Challenge (n.) An exception to a juror or to a member of a court martial, coupled with a demand that he should be held incompetent to act; the claim of a party that a certain person or persons shall not sit in trial upon him or his cause..

Placitum :: Placitum (n.) A public court or assembly in the Middle Ages, over which the sovereign president when a consultation was held upon affairs of state..

Habeas Corpus :: Habeas corpus () A writ having for its object to bring a party before a court or judge; especially, one to inquire into the cause of a person's imprisonment or detention by another, with the view to protect the right to personal liberty; also, one to bring a prisoner into court to testify in a pending trial..

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..

Curtsy :: Curtsy (n.) Same as Courtesy, an act of respect..

Courtesied :: Courtesied (imp. & p. p.) of Courtes.

Somner :: Somner (n.) A summoner; esp., one who summons to an ecclesiastical court..

Outcourt :: Outcourt (n.) An outer or exterior court.

Leger :: Leger (n.) A minister or ambassador resident at a court or seat of government.

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..

Decree :: Decree (n.) A decision, order, or sentence, given in a cause by a court of equity or admiralty..

Courtship :: Courtship (n.) The act of paying court, with the intent to solicit a favor..

Contumacious :: Contumacious (a.) Willfully disobedient to the summous or prders of a court.

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