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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A court of law.

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Examples

  • I collect the tithes and taxes, administer the communal lands, see that the garrison is provided for, supervise the junior officers who are the only officers we have here, keep an eye on trade, preside over the law-court twice a week.

    Jesse Kornbluth: The Wisest, Most Relevant Novel About 9/11 Was Published in 1980 2010

  • I collect the tithes and taxes, administer the communal lands, see that the garrison is provided for, supervise the junior officers who are the only officers we have here, keep an eye on trade, preside over the law-court twice a week.

    Jesse Kornbluth: The Wisest, Most Relevant Novel About 9/11 Was Published in 1980 2010

  • I collect the tithes and taxes, administer the communal lands, see that the garrison is provided for, supervise the junior officers who are the only officers we have here, keep an eye on trade, preside over the law-court twice a week.

    Jesse Kornbluth: The Wisest, Most Relevant Novel About 9/11 Was Published in 1980 2010

  • I collect the tithes and taxes, administer the communal lands, see that the garrison is provided for, supervise the junior officers who are the only officers we have here, keep an eye on trade, preside over the law-court twice a week.

    Jesse Kornbluth: The Wisest, Most Relevant Novel About 9/11 Was Published in 1980 2010

  • Let us try now whether what I write may serve me in good stead in a law-court.

    The Defense Apuleius 2008

  • Above all, whatever object he has kept concealed or stored under lock and key at home will be asserted by the same argument to be of a magical nature, or will be dragged from its cupboard into the light of the law-court before the seat of judgement.

    The Defense Apuleius 2008

  • Let us try now whether what I write may serve me in good stead in a law-court.

    The Defense Apuleius 2008

  • Above all, whatever object he has kept concealed or stored under lock and key at home will be asserted by the same argument to be of a magical nature, or will be dragged from its cupboard into the light of the law-court before the seat of judgement.

    The Defense Apuleius 2008

  • Quite after the manner of an advocate in a Greek law-court, but also Oriental (cf. David and Nathan the seer).

    Cyropaedia 2007

  • SOCRATES: And thus, my friend, on every occasion, private as well as public, as I said at first, when he appears in a law-court, or in any place in which he has to speak of things which are at his feet and before his eyes, he is the jest, not only of Thracian handmaids but of the general herd, tumbling into wells and every sort of disaster through his inexperience.

    Theaetetus 2007

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