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

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

Redundancy :: Redundancy (n.) Surplusage inserted in a pleading which may be rejected by the court without impairing the validity of what remains.

Report :: Report (v. t.) An official statement of facts, verbal or written; especially, a statement in writing of proceedings and facts exhibited by an officer to his superiors; as, the reports of the heads af departments to Congress, of a master in chancery to the court, of committees to a legislative body, and the like..

Spoliation :: Spoliation (v. t.) A process for possession of a church in a spiritual court.

Base-court :: Base-court (n.) An inferior court of law, not of record..

Graciously :: Graciously (adv.) In a gracious manner; courteously; benignantly.

Churlishness :: Churlishness (n.) Rudeness of manners or temper; lack of kindness or courtesy.

Clerk :: Clerk (n.) One employed to keep records or accounts; a scribe; an accountant; as, the clerk of a court; a town clerk..

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

Court-martial :: Court-martial (n.) A court consisting of military or naval officers, for the trial of one belonging to the army or navy, or of offenses against military or naval law..

Archchancellor :: Archchancellor (n.) A chief chancellor; -- an officer in the old German empire, who presided over the secretaries of the court..

Session :: Session (n.) The actual sitting of a court, council, legislature, etc., or the actual assembly of the members of such a body, for the transaction of business..

Pave :: Pave (v. t.) To lay or cover with stone, brick, or other material, so as to make a firm, level, or convenient surface for horses, carriages, or persons on foot, to travel on; to floor with brick, stone, or other solid material; as, to pave a street; to pave a court..

Quod :: Quod (n.) A quadrangle or court, as of a prison; hence, a prison..

Lady :: Lady (n.) A woman of social distinction or position. In England, a title prefixed to the name of any woman whose husband is not of lower rank than a baron, or whose father was a nobleman not lower than an earl. The wife of a baronet or knight has the title of Lady by courtesy, but not by right..

Obeisance :: Obeisance (n.) A manifestation of obedience; an expression of difference or respect; homage; a bow; a courtesy.

Cringe :: Cringe (v. t.) To draw one's self together as in fear or servility; to bend or crouch with base humility; to wince; hence; to make court in a degrading manner; to fawn.

Estreat :: Estreat (v. t.) To extract or take out from the records of a court, and send up to the court of exchequer to be enforced; -- said of a forfeited recognizance..

Humility :: Humility (n.) An act of submission or courtesy.

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