Definition of court

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

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Stand :: Stand (n.) To appear in court.
Court :: Court (n.) The hall, chamber, or place, where justice is administered..
Garnishment :: Garnishment (n.) Warning, or legal notice, to one to appear and give information to the court on any matter..
Prosecute :: Prosecute (v. t.) To seek to obtain by legal process; as, to prosecute a right or a claim in a court of law..
Sustain :: Sustain (v. t.) To allow the prosecution of; to admit as valid; to sanction; to continue; not to dismiss or abate; as, the court sustained the action or suit..
Qualificator :: Qualificator (n.) An officer whose business it is to examine and prepare causes for trial in the ecclesiastical courts.
Justiceable :: Justiceable (a.) Liable to trial in a court of justice.
Docket :: Docket (n.) A list or calendar of causes ready for hearing or trial, prepared for the use of courts by the clerks..
Reprimand :: Reprimand (n.) To reprove publicly and officially, in execution of a sentence; as, the court ordered him to be reprimanded..
Court-martialing :: Court-martialing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Court-martia.
Bailey :: Bailey (n.) A prison or court of justice; -- used in certain proper names; as, the Old Bailey in London; the New Bailey in Manchester..
Incompetent :: Incompetent (a.) Wanting the legal or constitutional qualifications; inadmissible; as, a person professedly wanting in religious belief is an incompetent witness in a court of law or equity; incompetent evidence..
Chapel :: Chapel (n.) A choir of singers, or an orchestra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman..
Court :: Court (v. t.) To endeavor to gain the affections of; to seek in marriage; to woo.
Blackguard :: Blackguard (n.) The scullions and lower menials of a court, or of a nobleman's household, who, in a removal from one residence to another, had charge of the kitchen utensils, and being smutted by them, were jocularly called the black guard; also, the servants and hangers-on of an army..
Contumacy :: Contumacy (n.) A willful contempt of, and disobedience to, any lawful summons, or to the rules and orders of court, as a refusal to appear in court when legally summoned..
Courtesy :: Courtesy (v. t.) To treat with civility.
Quadrangle :: Quadrangle (n.) A square or quadrangular space or inclosure, such a space or court surrounded by buildings, esp. such a court in a college or public school in England..
Continuance :: Continuance (n.) The adjournment of the proceedings in a cause from one day, or from one stated term of a court, to another..
Bar :: Bar (n.) The railing that incloses the place which counsel occupy in courts of justice. Hence, the phrase at the bar of the court signifies in open court..
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