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Record :: Record (v. t.) An official contemporaneous memorandum stating the proceedings of a court of justice; a judicial record.

Tales :: Tales (n.) Persons added to a jury, commonly from those in or about the courthouse, to make up any deficiency in the number of jurors regularly summoned, being like, or such as, the latter..

Civil :: Civil (a.) Having the manners of one dwelling in a city, as opposed to those of savages or rustics; polite; courteous; complaisant; affable..

Inquisitorial :: Inquisitorial (a.) Pertaining to the Court of Inquisition or resembling its practices.

Uncourtliness :: Uncourtliness (n.) Absence of courtliness; rudeness; rusticity.

Audit :: Audit (v. t.) To examine and adjust, as an account or accounts; as, to audit the accounts of a treasure, or of parties who have a suit depending in court..

Court :: Court (v. i.) To play the lover; to woo; as, to go courting..

Code :: Code (n.) A body of law, sanctioned by legislation, in which the rules of law to be specifically applied by the courts are set forth in systematic form; a compilation of laws by public authority; a digest..

Beadle :: Beadle (v.) A messenger or crier of a court; a servitor; one who cites or bids persons to appear and answer; -- called also an apparitor or summoner.

Thane :: Thane (n.) A dignitary under the Anglo-Saxons and Danes in England. Of these there were two orders, the king's thanes, who attended the kings in their courts and held lands immediately of them, and the ordinary thanes, who were lords of manors and who had particular jurisdiction within their limits. After the Conquest, this title was disused, and baron took its place..

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.

Plebicolist :: Plebicolist (n.) One who flatters, or courts the favor of, the common people; a demagogue..

Tubman :: Tubman (n.) One of the two most experienced barristers in the Court of Exchequer. Cf. Postman, 2..

Acquittal :: Acquittal (n.) A setting free, or deliverance from the charge of an offense, by verdict of a jury or sentence of a court..

Courtesy :: Courtesy (n.) Favor or indulgence, as distinguished from right; as, a title given one by courtesy..

Woo :: Woo (v. t.) To solicit in love; to court.

Areopagus :: Areopagus (n.) The highest judicial court at Athens. Its sessions were held on Mars' Hill. Hence, any high court or tribunal.

Injunction :: Injunction (n.) A writ or process, granted by a court of equity, and, insome cases, under statutes, by a court of law,whereby a party is required to do or to refrain from doing certain acts, according to the exigency of the writ..

Justiceable :: Justiceable (a.) Liable to trial in a court of justice.

Squired :: Squire (n.) A title of office and courtesy. See under Esquire.

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