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Judicature :: Judicature (n.) A court of justice; a judicatory.

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..

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..

Duces Tecum :: Duces tecum () A judicial process commanding a person to appear in court and bring with him some piece of evidence or other thing to be produced to the court.

Romance :: Romance (n.) An adventure, or series of extraordinary events, resembling those narrated in romances; as, his courtship, or his life, was a romance..

Court :: Court (v. t.) To endeavor to gain the affections of; to seek in marriage; to woo.

Bank :: Bank (n.) A bench; a high seat, or seat of distinction or judgment; a tribunal or court..

Wooer :: Wooer (v. t.) One who wooes; one who courts or solicits in love; a suitor.

Moot-hill :: Moot-hill (n.) A hill of meeting or council; an elevated place in the open air where public assemblies or courts were held by the Saxons; -- called, in Scotland, mute-hill..

Counterfoil :: Counterfoil (n.) That part of a tally, formerly in the exchequer, which was kept by an officer in that court, the other, called the stock, being delivered to the person who had lent the king money on the account; -- called also counterstock..

Incompetent :: Incompetent (a.) Wanting the legal or constitutional qualifications; inadmissible; as, a person professedly wanting in religious belief is an incompetent witness in a court of law or equity; incompetent evidence..

Court-craft :: Court-craft (n.) The artifices, intrigues, and plottings, at courts..

Annul :: Annul (a.) To make void or of no effect; to nullify; to abolish; to do away with; -- used appropriately of laws, decrees, edicts, decisions of courts, or other established rules, permanent usages, and the like, which are made void by component authority..

Above :: Above (adv.) Higher in rank or power; as, he appealed to the court above..

Per :: Per (prep.) Through; by means of; through the agency of; by; for; for each; as, per annum; per capita, by heads, or according to individuals; per curiam, by the court; per se, by itself, of itself. Per is also sometimes used with English words..

Docket :: Docket (n.) An abridged entry of a judgment or proceeding in an action, or register or such entries; a book of original, kept by clerks of courts, containing a formal list of the names of parties, and minutes of the proceedings, in each case in court..

Tourn :: Tourn (n.) The sheriff's turn, or court..

Term :: Term (n.) The time in which a court is held or is open for the trial of causes.

Court-leet :: Court-leet (n.) A court of record held once a year, in a particular hundred, lordship, or manor, before the steward of the leet..

Admission :: Admission (n.) A fact, point, or statement admitted; as, admission made out of court are received in evidence..

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