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Court :: Court (v. t.) To invite by attractions; to allure; to attract.

Plaint :: Plaint (n.) A private memorial tendered to a court, in which a person sets forth his cause of action; the exhibiting of an action in writing..

Application :: Application (n.) The act of making request of soliciting; as, an application for an office; he made application to a court of chancery..

Vest :: Vest (n.) To place or give into the possession or discretion of some person or authority; to commit to another; -- with in before the possessor; as, the power of life and death is vested in the king, or in the courts..

Parliament :: Parliament (n.) In France, before the Revolution of 1789, one of the several principal judicial courts..

Dispunct :: Dispunct (a.) Wanting in punctilious respect; discourteous.

Town :: Town (adv. & prep.) The court end of London;-- commonly with the.

Stipulation :: Stipulation (n.) A material article of an agreement; an undertaking in the nature of bail taken in the admiralty courts; a bargain.

Attach :: Attach (v. t.) To take by legal authority: (a) To arrest by writ, and bring before a court, as to answer for a debt, or a contempt; -- applied to a taking of the person by a civil process; being now rarely used for the arrest of a criminal. (b) To seize or take (goods or real estate) by virtue of a writ or precept to hold the same to satisfy a judgment which may be rendered in the suit. See Attachment, 4..

Justicement :: Justicement (n.) Administration of justice; procedure in courts of justice.

Diplomatic :: Diplomatic (n.) A minister, official agent, or envoy to a foreign court; a diplomatist..

Exchequer :: Exchequer (n.) One of the superior courts of law; -- so called from a checkered cloth, which covers, or formerly covered, the table..

Enroll :: Enroll (n.) To insert in a roil; to register or enter in a list or catalogue or on rolls of court; hence, to record; to insert in records; to leave in writing; as, to enroll men for service; to enroll a decree or a law; also, reflexively, to enlist..

Contumacious :: Contumacious (a.) Willfully disobedient to the summous or prders of a court.

Oyez :: Oyez (interj.) Hear; attend; -- a term used by criers of courts to secure silence before making a proclamation. It is repeated three times.

Challenge :: Challenge (n.) To object to or take exception to, as to a juror, or member of a court..

Chamber :: Chamber (n.) A room or rooms where a lawyer transacts business; a room or rooms where a judge transacts such official business as may be done out of court.

Inquisitorial :: Inquisitorial (a.) Pertaining to the Court of Inquisition or resembling its practices.

Diplomacy :: Diplomacy (n.) The body of ministers or envoys resident at a court; the diplomatic body.

Decree :: Decree (v. t.) To determine judicially by authority, or by decree; to constitute by edict; to appoint by decree or law; to determine; to order; to ordain; as, a court decrees a restoration of property..

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