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Ruling :: Ruling (n.) A decision or rule of a judge or a court, especially an oral decision, as in excluding evidence..

Porte :: Porte (n.) The Ottoman court; the government of the Turkish empire, officially called the Sublime Porte, from the gate (port) of the sultan's palace at which justice was administered..

Understand :: Understand (v. t.) To have just and adequate ideas of; to apprehended the meaning or intention of; to have knowledge of; to comprehend; to know; as, to understand a problem in Euclid; to understand a proposition or a declaration; the court understands the advocate or his argument; to understand the sacred oracles; to understand a nod or a wink..

Attach :: Attach (v. t.) To take by legal authority: (a) To arrest by writ, and bring before a court, as to answer for a debt, or a contempt; -- applied to a taking of the person by a civil process; being now rarely used for the arrest of a criminal. (b) To seize or take (goods or real estate) by virtue of a writ or precept to hold the same to satisfy a judgment which may be rendered in the suit. See Attachment, 4..

Discourtesy :: Discourtesy (n.) Rudeness of behavior or language; ill manners; manifestation of disrespect; incivility.

Courtesan :: Courtesan (n.) A woman who prostitutes herself for hire; a prostitute; a harlot.

Contumacy :: Contumacy (n.) A willful contempt of, and disobedience to, any lawful summons, or to the rules and orders of court, as a refusal to appear in court when legally summoned..

Curia :: Curia (n.) The court of a sovereign or of a feudal lord; also; his residence or his household.

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

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..

Cite :: Cite (v. t.) To call upon officially or authoritatively to appear, as before a court; to summon..

Inhibition :: Inhibition (n.) A writ from a higher court forbidding an inferior judge from further proceedings in a cause before; esp., a writ issuing from a higher ecclesiastical court to an inferior one, on appeal..

Demster :: Demster (n.) An officer whose duty it was to announce the doom or sentence pronounced by the court.

Aphrodisian :: Aphrodisian (a.) Pertaining to Aphrodite or Venus. Aphrodisian dames [that is, courtesans]..

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

Justiciary :: Justiciary (n.) An old name for the judges of the higher English courts.

Graciously :: Graciously (adv.) In a gracious manner; courteously; benignantly.

Starched :: Star-chamber (n.) An ancient high court exercising jurisdiction in certain cases, mainly criminal, which sat without the intervention of a jury. It consisted of the king's council, or of the privy council only with the addition of certain judges. It could proceed on mere rumor or examine witnesses; it could apply torture. It was abolished by the Long Parliament in 1641..

Justice :: "Justice (a.) A person duly commissioned to hold courts, or to try and decide controversies and administer justice..

Courtesy :: Courtesy (n.) An act of civility, respect, or reverence, made by women, consisting of a slight depression or dropping of the body, with bending of the knees..

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