Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An inferior court having the power to prosecute minor criminal offenses and to hold for trial persons charged with more serious offenses.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a minor court to try persons brought before it by the police.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a court that has power to prosecute for minor offenses and to bind over for trial in a superior court anyone accused of serious offenses
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“I find in my Daily Mail that at Bow Street police court a London magistrate, Sir Albert de Rutzen, ordered the destruction of 272 volumes of the English translation of Balzac's “Les Contes Drolatiques” on the ground that the book was obscene.”
“Lewis is quite dippy about it all - he's going to Aberdeen next week because there's a case coming up in the police court - a boy with five previous convictions. ”
“I find in my "Daily Mail" that at Bow Street police court a London magistrate, Sir Albert de Rutzen, ordered the destruction of 272 volumes of the English translation of Balzac's "Les Contes Drolatiques" on the ground that the book was obscene.”
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