supreme court

• “Thomas Ewing, Jr., was chief justice of the first supreme court of the state from February, 1861, to 28”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent

• “According to the UN, Nepal's supreme court ordered parliament to amend its rape law to allow prosecutions for marital rape.”

  The Guardian: UN women report: Access to justice remains a work in progress

• “The Holy Office, i.e. the supreme court in the Catholic Church for all matters that affect its faith or are closely connected with its teaching, has an officialis fiscalis, whose duties are similar to those of the fiscal procurator in episcopal courts.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI

• “He was a mandarin of the second class, and was even from 1731 a member of the supreme court of equity (Li-pu), a position which had never before been held by a foreigner”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent

• “Page 236 proper to continue or to erect, by three superior courts, to wit, a Court of Admiralty, a General Court of Common Law, and a High Court of Chancery; and by one supreme court to be called the Court of Appeals.”

  Notes on the State of Virginia.

• “The local government was largely left in the hands of the Sadducean priestly aristocracy, and the Sanhedrin was the supreme court of justice, deprived, however (about A.D. 30), of the power of carrying a sentence of death.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent

• “Congress; grant or refuse, with the assent of Congress, passage to decrees of councils, or pontifical Bulls, Briefs, and Rescripts; but in case that these affect matters in litigation, the supreme court of justice of the republic must be previously heard.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip

• “Intendance de Metz") a supreme court of justice and court of administration, the Metz Parliament.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman

• “In consequence of this, he applied to the supreme court for a writ of Mandamus, to know why the pulpit was denied him, being elder: this brought on a law suit, which ended in our favour.”

  The Doctrines and Discipline of the African Methodist Episcopal Church

• “The subject of my uneasiness is the habitual mode of making up and delivering the opinions of the supreme court of the US.”

  Letters

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