courts
法院,法庭,法庭上,法庭上的
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Definitions
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- : Law. a place where justice is administered.a judicial tribunal duly constituted for the hearing and determination of cases.a session of a judicial assembly.
- : an area open to the sky and mostly or entirely surrounded by buildings, walls, etc.
- : a high interior usually having a glass roof and surrounded by several stories of galleries or the like.
- : Chiefly Irish. a stately dwelling.
- : a short street.
- : a smooth, level quadrangle on which to play tennis, basketball, etc.
- : one of the divisions of such an area.
- : the residence of a sovereign or other high dignitary; palace.
- : a sovereign's or dignitary's retinue.
- : a sovereign and councilors as the political rulers of a state.
- : a formal assembly held by a sovereign.
- : homage paid, as to a king.
- : special or devoted attention in order to win favor, affection, etc.: to pay court to the king.
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Where does court come from?
Court of law. Tennis court. Courtship. Courtyard. Courtesy. Ever notice that all of these words and phrases—and many others—include court in some form? That’s no coincidence.The word court entered English around 1125–75. It comes from French, ultimately from the Latin cohors, variously meaning “farmyard, armed force, cohort, retinue.” More about that Latin noun cohors in the next section.Today, if someone says they went to court, they are referring to the place where lawyers argue cases, juries weigh evidence, and judges issue sentences. The legal senses of court are among the word’s oldest, found at least by the end of the 1200s in the sense of “assembly of judges.”Even older is the royal court. Think of those medieval princes and princesses doing their princely and princessly things in courts. Found in the mid- to late 1100s, that court originally referred to the place where a sovereign lived, as well as to an assembly that that ruler held.Whether used of royalty and law, these early senses of court—still in use today—suggest an underlying idea of an official group gathered together in an area set aside for special purposes.Speaking of physical spaces, many sports are played on courts, including basketball, volleyball, and tennis and other racquet sports. The original sports court, as far as the word is concerned, was for tennis. This draws on that basic sense of court as “an enclosed area.”Dig deeperHow are the words courtesy and courtship connected to court? Courtesy, along with the adjective courteous, comes from French words meaning “having manners fitting for the court of a prince.” Fun fact: curtsy,“a respectful bow made by women and girls, consisting of bending the knees and lowering the body,” is a variant of courtesy.Courtship stems from court in its verb sense of “to woo,” as in He courted his partner over romantic emails and text messages. Court, as a verb, can also mean “to win the favor.” These senses are connected to the idea of paying court—homage, attention, and well, courtesy—to someone, as they historically would have at a court.Learn even more words about related to court at our entries for courtier and courtesan.
Examples
Had the court ruled for the Green Party, officials would have had to scrap millions of ballots already printed and ready to be mailed out.
At best, the lawyers say, the amount paid would offset potential fines in the federal court action.
Epic has renewed a request for a court order that would reinstate the app on the store.
As you know, we’ve been trying to get outbreak data from the county through the courts.
As other House committees have seen firsthand in recent months, resort to the courts would likely leave the subpoena in limbo for months.
Unless there is a court decision that changes our law, we are OK.
On Dec. 30, she filed a similar lawsuit in D.C. Superior Court.
Cassandra, whose hair has already begun to fall out from her court-mandated chemotherapy, could face a similar outcome.
He added: “People say he deserves his day in court… Do we have enough time?”
The court ruled she lacked the maturity to make her own medical decisions.
M'Bongo and his whole court are now clothed, I am happy to say, at least to a certain extent.
When I was at Portugal, there was held at that time the court of justice of the Inquisition.
He also states that the Audiencia is virtually non-existent, and so there is no high court in which justice may be sought.
Rene le Pays, a French poet, died; well known at court by his miscellanies.
In the court-yard of the hotel was standing the voiture, which had come in some twenty minutes before us.