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Captation :: Captation (n.) A courting of favor or applause, by flattery or address; a captivating quality; an attraction..

Discourteous :: Discourteous (a.) Uncivil; rude; wanting in courtesy or good manners; uncourteous.

Bar :: Bar (n.) The whole body of lawyers licensed in a court or district; the legal profession.

Seguestration :: Seguestration (n.) A prerogative process empowering certain commissioners to take and hold a defendant's property and receive the rents and profits thereof, until he clears himself of a contempt or performs a decree of the court..

Audit :: Audit (v. t.) To examine and adjust, as an account or accounts; as, to audit the accounts of a treasure, or of parties who have a suit depending in court..

Outcourt :: Outcourt (n.) An outer or exterior court.

Courtesy :: Courtesy (n.) Favor or indulgence, as distinguished from right; as, a title given one by courtesy..

Defaulter :: Defaulter (n.) One who makes default; one who fails to appear in court when court when called.

Probate :: Probate (a.) Of or belonging to a probate, or court of probate; as, a probate record..

Provocation :: Provocation (n.) An appeal to a court. [A Latinism.

Drop :: Drop (n.) To cause to fall in one portion, or by one motion, like a drop; to let fall; as, to drop a line in fishing; to drop a courtesy..

Mister :: Mister (n.) A title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a man or youth. It is usually written in the abbreviated form Mr.

Embrace :: Embrace (n.) To attempt to influence corruptly, as a jury or court..

Mall :: Mall (n.) A court of justice.

Marshalsea :: Marshalsea (n.) The court or seat of a marshal; hence, the prison in Southwark, belonging to the marshal of the king's household..

Precedent :: Precedent (n.) A judicial decision which serves as a rule for future determinations in similar or analogous cases; an authority to be followed in courts of justice; forms of proceeding to be followed in similar cases.

Amerce :: Amerce (v. t.) To punish by a pecuniary penalty, the amount of which is not fixed by law, but left to the discretion of the court; as, the amerced the criminal in the sum on the hundred dollars..

Secretary :: Secretary (n.) An officer of state whose business is to superintend and manage the affairs of a particular department of government, and who is usually a member of the cabinet or advisory council of the chief executive; as, the secretary of state, who conducts the correspondence and attends to the relations of a government with foreign courts; the secretary of the treasury, who manages the department of finance; the secretary of war, etc..

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.

Stand :: Stand (v. i.) A place where a witness stands to testify in court.

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