Definition of Court

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Definition of Court

Court

An inclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different building; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley.

The residence of a sovereign, prince, nobleman, or ether dignitary; a palace.

The collective body of persons composing the retinue of a sovereign or person high in authority; all the surroundings of a sovereign in his regal state.

Any formal assembling of the retinue of a sovereign; as, to hold a court.

Attention directed to a person in power; conduct or address designed to gain favor; courtliness of manners; civility; compliment; flattery.

The hall, chamber, or place, where justice is administered.

The persons officially assembled under authority of law, at the appropriate time and place, for the administration of justice; an official assembly, legally met together for the transaction of judicial business; a judge or judges sitting for the hearing or trial of causes.

A tribunal established for the administration of justice.

The judge or judges; as distinguished from the counsel or jury, or both.

The session of a judicial assembly.

Any jurisdiction, civil, military, or ecclesiastical.

A place arranged for playing the game of tennis; also, one of the divisions of a tennis court.

To endeavor to gain the favor of by attention or flattery; to try to ingratiate one's self with.

To endeavor to gain the affections of; to seek in marriage; to woo.

To attempt to gain; to solicit; to seek.

To invite by attractions; to allure; to attract.

To play the lover; to woo; as, to go courting.

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Court Quotations

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
Mohandas Gandhi

Please keep an open mind and let me have my day in court.
Michael Jackson

There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

When a nominee for the Supreme Court, one of only nine lifetime appointments, makes an overtly brazen racist comment about tens of millions of American citizens, we don't need lectures. What we need to do is to confront her with what she said and what it says about her.
Rush Limbaugh

Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.
Albert Schweitzer

Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.
Harry S. Truman

The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.
Jay Leno

There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.
Clarence Darrow

The Supreme Court ruled that disabled golfer Casey Martin has a legal right to ride in a golf cart between shots at PGA Tour events. Man, the next thing you know, they're going to have some guy carry his clubs around for him.
Jon Stewart

Court Translations

court in Afrikaans is hof
court in Dutch is het hof maken, scharrelen, vrijen
court in Finnish is piha
court in French is briguez, briguer, cour, briguons, briguent
court in German is Hof, Gericht(shof)
court in Italian is cortile, pietanza
court in Latin is curia
court in Norwegian is domstol
court in Spanish is patio, corral
court in Swedish is domstol, hov

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