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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..

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..

Chancery :: Chancery (n.) In the Unites States, a court of equity; equity; proceeding in equity..

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

Mootman :: Mootman (n.) One who argued moot cases in the inns of court.

Cringe :: Cringe (v. t.) To draw one's self together as in fear or servility; to bend or crouch with base humility; to wince; hence; to make court in a degrading manner; to fawn.

Attaint :: Attaint (v.) A writ which lies after judgment, to inquire whether a jury has given a false verdict in any court of record; also, the convicting of the jury so tried..

Bonair :: Bonair (a.) Gentle; courteous; complaisant; yielding.

Reprimand :: Reprimand (n.) To reprove publicly and officially, in execution of a sentence; as, the court ordered him to be reprimanded..

Repulse :: Repulse (v. t.) To repel by discourtesy, coldness, or denial; to reject; to send away; as, to repulse a suitor or a proffer..

Secretary :: Secretary (n.) An officer of state whose business is to superintend and manage the affairs of a particular department of government, and who is usually a member of the cabinet or advisory council of the chief executive; as, the secretary of state, who conducts the correspondence and attends to the relations of a government with foreign courts; the secretary of the treasury, who manages the department of finance; the secretary of war, etc..

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

Array :: Array (n.) The whole body of jurors summoned to attend the court.

Nonterm :: Nonterm (n.) A vacation between two terms of a court.

Impound :: Impound (v. t.) To shut up or place in an inclosure called a pound; hence, to hold in the custody of a court; as, to impound stray cattle; to impound a document for safe keeping..

Compear :: Compear (v. i.) To appear in court personally or by attorney.

Bail :: Bail (n.) The outer wall of a feudal castle. Hence: The space inclosed by it; the outer court.

Curiality :: Curiality (n.) The privileges, prerogatives, or retinue of a court..

Defensor :: Defensor (n.) A defender or an advocate in court; a guardian or protector.

Residency :: Residency (n.) A political agency at a native court in British India, held by an officer styled the Resident; also, a Dutch commercial colony or province in the East Indies..

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