Definition of Court

Court
(n.)
A place arranged for playing the game of tennis; also, one of the divisions of a tennis court.
  
(n.)
A tribunal established for the administration of justice.
  
(n.)
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.
  
(n.)
Any formal assembling of the retinue of a sovereign; as, to hold a court.
  
(n.)
Any jurisdiction, civil, military, or ecclesiastical.
  
(n.)
Attention directed to a person in power; conduct or address designed to gain favor; courtliness of manners; civility; compliment; flattery.
  
(n.)
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.
  
(n.)
The hall, chamber, or place, where justice is administered.
  
(n.)
The judge or judges; as distinguished from the counsel or jury, or both.
  
(n.)
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.
  
(n.)
The residence of a sovereign, prince, nobleman, or ether dignitary; a palace.
  
(n.)
The session of a judicial assembly.
  
(v. i.)
To play the lover; to woo; as, to go courting.
  
(v. t.)
To attempt to gain; to solicit; to seek.
  
(v. t.)
To endeavor to gain the affections of; to seek in marriage; to woo.
  
(v. t.)
To endeavor to gain the favor of by attention or flattery; to try to ingratiate one's self with.
  
(v. t.)
To invite by attractions; to allure; to attract.
  

Court

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Noun
1. Australian woman tennis player who won many major championships (born in 1947)
(synonym) Margaret Court
(hypernym) tennis player

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Noun
1. an assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business
(synonym) tribunal, judicature
(hypernym) assembly
(hyponym) International Court of Justice, World Court
(member-meronym) jury
(part-meronym) Bench
2. the sovereign and his advisers who are the governing power of a state
(synonym) royal court
(hypernym) government, authorities, regime
(hyponym) Court of Saint James's
3. a specially marked area within which a game is played; "players had to reserve a court in advance"
(hypernym) playing field, athletic field, playing area, field
(hyponym) badminton court
4. a room in which a law court sits; "television cameras were admitted in the courtroom"
(synonym) courtroom
(hypernym) room
(part-holonym) courthouse
(part-meronym) bar
(classification) law, jurisprudence
5. a yard wholly or partly surrounded by walls or buildings; "the house was built around an inner court"
(synonym) courtyard
(hypernym) yard, grounds, curtilage
(hyponym) atrium
(part-holonym) building, edifice
6. the residence of a sovereign or nobleman; "the king will visit the duke's court"
(hypernym) residence
7. the family and retinue of a sovereign or prince
(synonym) royal court
(hypernym) cortege, retinue, suite, entourage
8. a hotel for motorists; provides direct access from rooms to parking area
(synonym) motor hotel, motor inn, motor lodge, tourist court
(hypernym) hotel
(hyponym) motel
9. respectful deference; "pay court to the emperor"
(synonym) homage
(hypernym) deference, respect
(derivation) woo

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Verb
1. make amorous advances towards; "John is courting Mary"
(synonym) woo, romance, solicit
(hypernym) act, move
(hyponym) chase, chase after
(derivation) courtship, wooing, courting, suit
2. seek someone's favor; "China is wooing Russia"
(synonym) woo
(derivation) homage
3. engage in social activities leading to marriage; "We were courting for over ten years"
(hypernym) act, move
(derivation) courtship, wooing, courting, suit

The Ball is in your court
Meaning
The next move is up to you.
Origin
From tennis, where you must play the ball back to the opponent's court whenever it comes into yours.

Kangaroo court
people judging smb. in what they think he does wrong

court
attempt to gain ;seek ;woo ;risk ;behave so as to invite ;attempt to gain the favor of by attention ;Ex. court disaster**He used to court her, but she never seemed to care.The protesters courted arrest.

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court
\court\, n.
court
of claims (law), a court for settling claims against a state or government; specif., a court of the united states, created by act of congress, and holding its sessions at washington. it is given jurisdiction over claims on contracts against the government, and sometimes may advise the government as to its liabilities. couveuse \cou`veuse"\ (?), n. [f.] (med.) an incubator for sickly infants, esp. those prematurely born.
court
\court\ (kōrt), n. [of. court, curt, cort, f. cour, ll. cortis, fr. l. cohors, cors, chors, gen. cohortis, cortis, chortis, an inclosure, court, thing inclosed, crowd, throng; co- + a root akin to gr. chorto`s inclosure, feeding place, and to e. garden, yard, orchard. see yard, and cf. cohort, curtain.]
1. 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 courts of the house of our god. cxxxv. 2. and round the cool green courts there ran a row of cloisters. goldsmith took a garret in a miserable court.
2. the residence of a sovereign, prince, nobleman, or other dignitary; a palace. attends the emperor in his royal court. this our court, infected with their manners, shows like a riotous inn.
3. 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. my lord, there is a nobleman of the court at door would speak with you. love rules the court, the camp, the grove. w. scott.
4. any formal assembling of the retinue of a sovereign; as, to hold a court. the princesses held their court within the fortress.
5. attention directed to a person in power; conduct or address designed to gain favor; courtliness of manners; civility; compliment; flattery. no solace could her paramour intreat her once to show, ne court, nor dalliance. i went to make my court to the duke and duchess of newcastle.
6. (law) (a) the hall, chamber, or place, where justice is administered. (b) 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. (c) a tribunal established for the administration of justice. (d) the judge or judges; as distinguished from the counsel or jury, or both. most heartily i do beseech the court to give the judgment.
7. the session of a judicial assembly.
8. any jurisdiction, civil, military, or ecclesiastical.
9. a place arranged for playing the game of tennis; also, one of the divisions of a tennis court.

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 vice-admiralty court 
 day in court 
 court guide 
 at court or in court 
 district court 
 court of arches 
 inferior court 
 to put out of court 
 court-craft 
 court of delegates 
 court-baron 
 court of audience 
 court breeding 
 police court 
 general court-martial 
 prize court 
 suit court 
 court-leet 
 court of common pleas 
 orphans` court 
 augmentation court 
 base-court 
 hundred court 
 court of honor 
 moot court 
 court of conscience 
 court rolls 
 high commission court 
 inns of court 
 international court of justice 
 court-plaster 
 trial court 
 court of chancery 
 court tennis 
 court of chivalry 
 double court 
 probate court 
 court of first instance 
 prerogative court 
 court of record 
 rolls of court 
 general court 
 at court or in court 
 court of consience 
 court of requests 
 court in banc 
 tennis court 
 court in bank 

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 lady court 
 traffic court 
 the court of the lord 
 court day 
 court circular 
 court marshal 
 court fool 
 spiritual court 
 arches court 
 audience court 
 christian court 
 court of probate 
 court of claims 
 court dress 
 drumhead court-martial 
 court-martial 
 court of peculiars 
 circuit court 
 court of st james 
 court of session 
 court lands 
 court of cassation 
 appelate court 
 instance court 
 court of equity 
 court of justiciary 
 court party 
 kangaroo court 
 court hand 
 world court 
 court card 
 to pay one`s court 
 court of regard 
 county court 
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 royal court 
 volleyball court 
 racket court 
 tourist court 
 honor court 
 court-cupboard 
 lower court 
 court of inquiry 
 city court 

Arlys
Arlys = n. a supreme court

Beili
Beili = n. an outlet; a court, or yard; a mound

Breintlys
Breintlys = n. privilege court

Breninlys
Breninlys = n. a king's court

Caru
Caru = v. to court, to love

Coflys
Coflys = n. a court of record

Cwrt
Cwrt = n. a mound; a court

Cynhordy
Cynhordy = n. court house

Llys
Llys = n. what separates or discriminates; a slime; a court, a hall, a palace

Priflys
Priflys = n. a supreme court

Treflys
Treflys = n. a court leet

COURT
A place where justice is judicially administered.

Government entity authorized to resolve legal disputes. Judges sometimes use 'court' to refer to themselves in the third person, as in 'the court has read the briefs.'

A court is an incorporeal political being which requires for its existence the presence of the judges, or a competent number of them, and a clerk or prothonotary at the time during which, and at the place where it is by law authorized to be held; and the performance of some public act indicative of a design to perform the functions of a court.

In another sense, the judges, clerk, or prothonotary, counsellors and ministerial officers are said to constitute the court.

The judges, when duly convened, are also called the court.

It sometimes happens that the judges composing a court are equally divided on questions discussed before them. It has been decided that when such is the case on an appeal or writ of error the judgment or decree is affirmed. If it occurs on a motion in arrest of judgment a judgment is to be entered on the verdict. If on a motion for a new trial the motion is rejected. If on a motion to enter judgment on a verdict, the judgment is entered. In England, if the house of lords be equally divided on a writ of error, the judgment of the court below is affirmed. But in error coram nobis, no judgment can be given if the judges are equally divided, except by consent. When the judges are equally divided on the admission of testimony, it cannot be received.

Courts are of various kinds. When considered as to their powers they are of record and not of record; when compared to each other they are supreme, superior, and inferior; when examined as to their original jurisdiction they are civil or criminal; when viewed as to their territorial jurisdiction they are central or local; when divided as to their object they are courts of law, courts of equity, courts martial, admiralty courts and ecclesiastical courts. They are also courts of original jurisdiction, courts of error and courts of appeal.

Courts of record cannot be deprived of their jurisdiction except by express negative words. And such a court is the court of common pleas in Pennsylvania.

Courts of equity are not, in general, courts of record. Their decrees touch the person, not lands or goods. Yet, as to personalty, their decrees are equal to a judgment and have preference according to priority. They are also conclusive between the parties. Assumpsit will lie on a decree of a foreign court of chancery for a sum certain but not for a sum not ascertained. In Pennsylvania an action at law will lie on a decree of a court of chancery, but the pleas nil debet and nultiel record cannot be pleaded in such an action.

This entry contains material from Bouvier's Legal Dictionary, a work published in the 1850's.

Court
Body with judicial powers (see also Court room)

Court
The term "court" has three meanings:
1) a physical place, e.g., courtroom, courthouse
2) a quasi-political entity, e.g., superior court, family court
3) the actual judge or justice acting in her official capacity

Court
The term "court" has three meanings:
a physical place, e.g., courtroom, courthouse
a quasi-political entity, e.g., the Probate and Family Court
the actual judge or justice acting in his or her official capacity

Court
the enclosure of the tabernacle (Ex. 27:9-19; 40:8), of the temple (1 Kings 6:36), of a prison (Neh. 3:25), of a private house (2 Sam. 17:18), and of a king's palace (2 Kings 20:4).

Court

(Heb. chatser), an open enclosure surrounded by buildings, applied in the Authorized Version most commonly to the enclosures of the tabernacle and the temple. (Exodus 27:9; 40:33; Leviticus 6:16; 1 Kings 6:36; 7:8; 2 Kings 23:12; 2 Chronicles 33:5) etc.
  

Azor
a helper; a court
  

Eliezer
help, or court, of my God
  

Ezra
help; court
  

Hazor
court; hay
  

Ulam
the porch; the court; their strength; their folly
  

Court
The administrative, judicial, and political body of authority for a feudal body. Adopted from the Roman conception of the curia, the concept was modified by the Germanic tribes, who attached both military and political elements to the leader's responsibilities. This is, in part, how feudal lords came to have such great powers over their vassals . Gradually, the concept of the court came to encompass not only the noble in charge of a body, but the chief officers and vassals who served him, since they would in many cases play some role in the dispensing of justice. The four principal officers of the court, the constable (military officer), chamberlain (treasurer), seneschal (administrator of justice in the absence of the lord), and steward (who administered to the estates).

Dikephobia
Fear of justice

Liticaphobia
Fear of lawsuits

Court
Judgmental

court
curia

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court
The playing area for a game of basketball, which varies in size, depending on the level of play. National Basketball Association courts are 94 feet long by 50 feet wide. The court used in international play is 91 feet, 10 inches, by 49 feet, 2 ¼ inches. The court is bounded by baselines and sidelines and is divided in halves by a center line.

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