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Forensic :: Forensic (a.) Belonging to courts of judicature or to public discussion and debate; used in legal proceedings, or in public discussions; argumentative; rhetorical; as, forensic eloquence or disputes..

Close :: Close (v. t.) A narrow passage leading from a street to a court, and the houses within..

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..

Garnishment :: Garnishment (n.) Warning, or legal notice, to one to appear and give information to the court on any matter..

Chamber :: Chamber (n.) A room or rooms where a lawyer transacts business; a room or rooms where a judge transacts such official business as may be done out of court.

Cut :: Cut (n.) That which wounds the feelings, as a harsh remark or criticism, or a sarcasm; personal discourtesy, as neglecting to recognize an acquaintance when meeting him; a slight..

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..

Court :: Court (n.) A tribunal established for the administration of justice.

Receiver :: Receiver (n.) A person appointed, ordinarily by a court, to receive, and hold in trust, money or other property which is the subject of litigation, pending the suit; a person appointed to take charge of the estate and effects of a corporation, and to do other acts necessary to winding up its affairs, in certain cases..

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

Rota :: Rota (n.) An ecclesiastical court of Rome, called also Rota Romana, that takes cognizance of suits by appeal. It consists of twelve members..

Probate :: Probate (n.) Official proof; especially, the proof before a competent officer or tribunal that an instrument offered, purporting to be the last will and testament of a person deceased, is indeed his lawful act; the copy of a will proved, under the seal of the Court of Probate, delivered to the executors with a certificate of its having been proved..

Placitory :: Placitory (a.) Of or pertaining to pleas or pleading, in courts of law..

Enroll :: Enroll (n.) To insert in a roil; to register or enter in a list or catalogue or on rolls of court; hence, to record; to insert in records; to leave in writing; as, to enroll men for service; to enroll a decree or a law; also, reflexively, to enlist..

Drop :: Drop (n.) To cause to fall in one portion, or by one motion, like a drop; to let fall; as, to drop a line in fishing; to drop a courtesy..

Institute :: Institute (v. t.) To originate and establish; to found; to organize; as, to institute a court, or a society..

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..

Abbreviator :: Abbreviator (n.) One of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal court whose duty is to make a short minute of a decision on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into official form..

Tolt :: Tolt (n.) A writ by which a cause pending in a court baron was removed into a country court.

Rule :: Rule (a.) An order regulating the practice of the courts, or an order made between parties to an action or a suit..

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