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Counsel; advisor; councilor; barrister.
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(US, derogatory, chiefly in right-wing discourse) A judge or justice who makes rulings based on personal political views or considerations rather than on the law, or who issues rulings intended to have political effects.
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(law) The system of jurisprudence of admiralty courts.
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(law) A system of law in which advocates represent the prosecution and the defence and an impartial person (judge) or people (jury) determine the truth of the matter
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(Scotland, law) To appeal from an inferior court to the Court of Session.
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(law, informal) Someone not a party to a case who submits a brief and/or presents oral argument in that case.
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(law, Canada) An independent lawyer, not retained by any party, whom the court has ordered to provide legal submissions regarding the matter in dispute; for example, to provide submissions regarding the situation of an unrepresented litigant or accused person.
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(government) A supreme court.
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(US, law) The power of a court to review and potentially modify the decisions made by another court or tribunal.
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(law) A specialist who assists the court in determining a matter.
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(law, Scotland) A juror.
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(US, law) A member of a judicial panel who is not the chief justice.
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(informal) The work of an attorney
adj
Being or relating to a type of court involving a bench of judges, often an appeals court.
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The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at nisi prius, or a court held for jury trials. See banc
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(UK, law) The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses stay.
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Clipping of bar examination [An examination that must be passed by persons who wish to practice law.]
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An examination that must be passed by persons who wish to practice law.
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(US, law) A course of study designed to prepare an individual to take a bar examination.
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A judge who accepts bribes.
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The activity of working as a barrister
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(law) An inferior court of law, not a court of record.
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(law) The people who decide on the verdict; the judiciary.
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(government, business) A panel of officials, typically appointed by an elected officer, charged with making decisions on the continuing applicability of administrative decisions.
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(law) A private arguing of cases for practice by students, as in the Inns of Court.
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(law) Initialism of bench trial. [(law) A trial by judge as opposed to a trial by jury.]
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(law) Abbreviation of chief judge. [(US) The principal, presiding, or most senior judge of especially a lower level court or of a circuit]
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(law) The obligation of a barrister (in certain jurisdictions) to accept any work in a field in which they profess themselves competent to practise, at a court at which they normally appear, and at their usual rates.
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(law) A lawyer who was called to the bar (became licensed as a lawyer) in a specified year.
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(idiomatic, law) Admission to practice in the courts.
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The judge's private chamber, where cases may be heard in camera.
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Alternative form of case law [Law developed by judges through court decisions and opinions, as distinct from statute and other legislation.]
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(India, historical) A judge
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(Britain, law) A grant of review of a government action by a court with discretion to make such a review.
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(colloquial) Synonym of constitutional court
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(US) The principal, presiding, or most senior judge of especially a lower level court or of a circuit
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(law) A court that sits at more than one location in the district that it serves.
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(US) A judge who holds court in a series of towns.
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A court dealing with cases in civil law.
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(law) A kind of legal order allowing a court to correct its original judgment upon discovery of a fundamental error which did not appear in the records of the original judgment's proceedings and would have prevented the judgment from being pronounced.
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A lawyer, as in Queen's Counsel (QC).
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(US) A court which handles both civil and criminal cases.
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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 cases.
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(law) The full court sitting at its regular terms for the hearing of arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at nisi prius.
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Alternative form of court in banc [(law) The full court sitting at its regular terms for the hearing of arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at nisi prius.]
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(law, military) A court where cases of military law are heard.
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(law) In many legal systems, the highest-level court of appeal in procedural matters, which is asked to squash a verdict but then refers the case back for a new court case at the previous level.
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(law) a court of law where legal proceedings are first heard.
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(law) The final court of appeal in a jurisdiction; a supreme court.
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A court presided over by a judge which is empowered to decide all aspects of legal disputes.
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(idiomatic) The news media and the public at large, seen as being able to deliver a judgement on someone in the manner of a judge.
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(law) A trial court in which a clerk or reporter takes down a record of proceedings, which is preserved at least long enough for all appeals to be exhausted, or for some further period of time provided by law.
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(law) an appellate court.
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Synonym of court of public opinion
n
Alternative form of courtroom [The room where a judge presides over hearings and trials, sometimes with a jury.]
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Alternative form of court martial [(law, military) A court where cases of military law are heard.]
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The act of changing the composition or number of members of a judicial body in order to alter the decisions of that body.
adj
Dominated or overly influenced by the judiciary.
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Alternative form of court martial [(law, military) A court where cases of military law are heard.]
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The room where a judge presides over hearings and trials, sometimes with a jury.
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(law) A lawyer who specializes in criminal law
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In England and Wales, a higher court of law that sits regularly in various regional locations, normally with a judge and jury. It deals with serious offences referred from magistrates' courts, as well as appeals against the decisions of magistrates' courts.
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(Scotland, law) An award made by an arbiter
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(law, rare) A lawyer who represents defendants, especially a public defender; a defense attorney (US) or defence counsel (UK).
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(US) A lawyer who regularly represents defendants who have insurance and is chosen by the insurance company.
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(law) a defender or advocate in court; a guardian or protector
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(Northern Ireland, historical) a type of criminal court established in Northern Ireland during The Troubles for bench trial of certain serious offences like murder, arson and riot
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The council chamber where this court is held; (by extension), any court of justice.
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(obsolete) Alternative spelling of doomsman [(obsolete) A judge; an umpire.]
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(obsolete) A judge; an umpire.
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Alternative form of drumhead court-martial [(military) A court-martial held in the field to hear urgent charges of offences committed in action.]
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(military) A court-martial held in the field to hear urgent charges of offences committed in action.
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A drumhead court-martial.
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(law, England & Wales) A tribunal with jurisdiction to hear disputes related to employment (such as unfair dismissal); the mandatory court of first instance in such claims.
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(by extension, figuratively) The office of a judge.
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(law) Someone appointed to be an executor (the person who carries out the directions set forth in a will) and also be a trustee of an estate after the executor's duties have been completed.
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(law) A court convened to decide matters and make orders in relation to family law, such as custody of children.
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(US, law) A judge whose law clerks are often selected to become clerks for the Supreme Court.
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(obsolete) commission; fiat; order; decree
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(law) The member of a jury who presides over it and speaks on its behalf.
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(law) The, often elevated and in the rear, part of a courtroom where seating for the public audience is facilitated during trial.
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A supreme court; a court to which final appeals may be taken.
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Alternative form of en banc [(law) As a group, particularly with respect to a legal decision rendered by all of the judges sitting on a court, rather than by a smaller panel of judges from that court.]
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Any court whose decisions can be appealed to a higher one.
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(law) a trial system in which the prosecutor also acts as judge
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obsolete typography of judge [A public official whose duty it is to administer the law, especially by presiding over trials and rendering judgments; a justice.]
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(informal) A person incarcerated in a prison, jail, etc., who has acquired significant knowledge of the justice system and who is able to represent himself in some legal proceedings and to provide legal advice to other prisoners.
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(India, historical) An answer, especially a dismissal, or a woman's rejection of a marriage proposal.
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Obsolete form of judge. [A public official whose duty it is to administer the law, especially by presiding over trials and rendering judgments; a justice.]
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A public official whose duty it is to administer the law, especially by presiding over trials and rendering judgments; a justice.
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(US) A commissioned officer acting as a lawyer to advise a court martial on points of law or to act as prosecutor.
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Judges collectively; a court or group of courts; the judiciary.
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That branch of government which is responsible for maintaining the courts of law and for the administration of justice.
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(law, often derogatory) The act of replacing an impartial interpretation of existing law with the judge's personal feelings about what the law should be.
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(law) A day on which a court is open.
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(law) A public officer authorized to hear and decide cases in a court of law.
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(law, countable) A judicial process undertaken under this doctrine.
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The court system, inclusive of clerical staff, etc.
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(law, historical) A medieval informant: a man sworn to provide information about crimes committed in his neighborhood.
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(law) Synonym of legal person
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(US, Canada, law) A judge.
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(civil law, South Africa) Any conduct by a person intended to create, modify, transfer, preserve, or extinguish a right, obligation, or legal relationship.
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Archaic spelling of juries; plural of jury.
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(idiomatic) A judicial or quasi-judicial proceeding, or a group which conducts such proceedings, which is without proper authority, abusive, or otherwise unjust.
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Litigation; legal action (as a means of maintaining or restoring order, redressing wrongs, etc).
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A clerk who assists a judge with legal proceedings. Depending on the court, such positions may be professional careers or may be temporary positions for graduating law students.
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Alternative form of court of law [A court presided over by a judge which is empowered to decide all aspects of legal disputes.]
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Alternative form of law court
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Obsolete form of lawyer. [A professional person with a graduate law degree that qualifies for legal work (such as Juris Doctor)]
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The use of the judicial system against one's opponents, often only to attack or condemn a rival.
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A professional person with a graduate law degree that qualifies for legal work (such as Juris Doctor)
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Synonym of barrister's block
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One subject to the jurisdiction of a court-leet.
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(law) The giving of a formal opinion regarding the substance or procedure of the law, usually received from a solicitor, barrister or lawyer, ordinarily for a fee.
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Free or low-cost service in the field of law, for the indigent.
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Synonym of attorney-client privilege
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A person employed to litigate, a lawyer skilled in arguing in court.
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(law) An inferior court.
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(law) A judicial officer with limited authority to administer and enforce the law. A magistrate's court may have jurisdiction in civil or criminal cases, or both.
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In England and Wales, a lower court of law that deals with less serious offences, as well as initial hearings for serious offences prior to referring these to the Crown Court. Cases are heard by two or three magistrates, or sometimes a district judge, without a jury.
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(UK, informal) Short for magistrates' court. [In England and Wales, a lower court of law that deals with less serious offences, as well as initial hearings for serious offences prior to referring these to the Crown Court. Cases are heard by two or three magistrates, or sometimes a district judge, without a jury.]
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(law) A parajudicial officer (such as a referee, an auditor, an examiner, or an assessor) specially appointed to help a court with its proceedings.
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(law) One who assists a litigant in person in a common law court, whether legally qualified or not.
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A jury or inquest consisting half of aliens and half of natives.
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A military court designed to try members of enemy forces during times of war.
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(historical) An assembly (usually for decision-making in a locality).
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(law) A law school organization which organizes such competitions and prepares competitors.
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(law, UK, obsolete) One who argued moot cases in the inns of court.
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A court in some countries, which handles cases in which the higher echelons of power (typically cabinet members) are involved.
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(UK) A temporary court in England and Wales established to deal with the backlog of legal cases brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic that began in 2020.
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(law, especially civil law) A lawyer of noncontentious private civil law who drafts, takes, and records legal instruments for private parties, and provides legal advice, but does not appear in court on his or her clients' behalf.
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An officer who can administer oaths and statutory declarations, witness and authenticate documents and perform certain other acts varying from jurisdiction to jurisdiction.
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(law) One who, as a function of their professional duties, must promote the effective operation of the judicial system.
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arbitration by an ombudsman
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(law) A judge with the authority to deal with cases himself or herself rather than by delegation.
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(law, Scotland) A prisoner arraigned for trial at the bar of a criminal court.
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(American spelling) A person who is a member of a panel.
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(US, law) The authority of a United States federal court to hear a closely related state law claim against a party already facing a federal claim.
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The entire or full court, sitting en banc.
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(law) A court of justice for trying small cases brought before it by the police.
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(historical) A court through which the discretionary powers, privileges, and legal immunities reserved to the sovereign were exercised.
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An examiner; an approver.
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(law enforcement) A deliverer of processes or summonses, the formal announcements of the beginning of a legal action; a huissier de justice or other equivalent position in other legal systems.
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(law) One who propounds a will for probate.
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The authority to act for another, especially when written.
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a judicial hearing which anyone may attend, as opposed to a private hearing.
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(UK, law) A circuit court judge.
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(US, law) The appointment by the President of the United States of a person to an office that normally requires approval of the United States Senate, but who is appointed without such approval because the Senate is in recess.
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In Germany, a legal probationer who has passed the first of the two examinations for the judicial service.
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(law) A private person at whose relation, or in whose behalf, the attorney-general allows an information in the nature of a quo warranto to be filed.
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(law) The lawyers and staff who argue on behalf of another in court.
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(formal) The legal system of Scotland, a hybrid of civil law and common law.
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(US, law) In the United States federal court system, a form of semi-retirement in which a judge continues to engage in judicial activities including the disposition of cases on a limited basis.
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The part of the year in which judicial business is transacted.
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(law) A person appointed specifically to examine a single event or issue.
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(law) A fee paid to counsel for work on a particular case.
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(law) In the law of civil procedure, the ability of a court to hear a case based on the authority granted to the court to hear that particular type of case.
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(law) The authority that a higher court has to issue an order specifically ordering a lower court to perform (or stop performing) a certain action
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A court of general competence which typically has unlimited jurisdiction with regard to civil and criminal legal cases in the lowest hierarchy of a judiciary in a common law system.
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A court of law which represents the highest legal authority within a jurisdiction.
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(US, humorous, derogatory) Supreme Court (the highest Federal court of the United States, ("the Supreme Court")).
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(US, informal) The current members, as a group, of the Supreme Court of the United States.
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The time during which legal courts are open.
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A law student in his or her third (and usually final) year of law school.
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(law) a court of first instance.
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(law) An assembly including one or more judges to conduct judicial business; a court of law.
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(law) The fourth and final term of the legal year, running from May to July, during which the upper courts of England and Wales, and Ireland, sit to hear cases.
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(UK, slang, obsolete) A jury of twelve people.
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