court (kort)

and a. [ coursing. Both [acts] contain an exemption in respect of the pursuit and killing of hares by coursing with greyhounds, or by hunting with beagles or other hounds. S. Dowell , Taxes in England, III. 277. cor(t-)s, contr. of cohor (t-)s, a place inclosed (see cohort ); akin to E. yard, garth, garden, q. v.; hence courteous, courtesy, courtier, courtezan, etc.] I. n. 1. An inclosed space connected with a building or buildings of any kind, and IMG:content-1482.jpg:[merged small][merged small][graphic][merged small] sometimes covered over entirely or partially with gla , as is common in the case of the central courts of large French buildings. A faire quadrangular Court, with goodly lodgings about it foure stories high. Coryat, Crudities, I. 31. Four courts I made, East, West, and South and North, In each a squared lawn. Tennyson, Palace of Art. 2. A short arm of a public street, inclosed on three sides by buildings: as, the former Jauncey court on Wall street in New York.-3. А smooth, level plot of ground or floor, on which tennis, rackets, or hand-ball is played. See tennis-court. Tell him, he hath made a match with such a wrangler, That all the courts of France will be disturb'd With chaces. Shak., Hen. V., i. 2. 4. A palace; the residence of a sovereign or other high dignitary; used absolutely, the pla ely, the place where a sovereign holds state, surrounded by his official attendants and tokens of his dignity: as, to be presented at court. The same night sothely, sais me the lettur, The corse caried was to courtte of the knight Paris. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 10751. Men so disorder'd, so debosh'd and bold, That this our court , infected with their manners, Shows like a riotous inn. Shak., Lear, i. 4. ... The Persian, finding he had given offense, hath made a sort of apology, and said that illne had prevented him from going to court . Greville , Memoirs, June 25, 1819. 5. All the surroundings of a sovereign in his regal state; specifically, the collective body of persons who compose the retinue or council of a sovereign or other princely dignitary. Love rules the court , the camp, the grove. Scott , L. of L. M., iii. 2. Her court was pure; her life serene; God gave her peace; her land reposed; A you sand claims to reverence closed In her as Mother, Wife, and Queen. Tennyson, To the Queen. 6. The hall, chamber, or place where justice is administered.-7. In law, a tribunal duly constituted, and present at a time and place fixed pursuant to law, for the judicial investigation and determination of controversies. The court is not the judge or judges as individuals, but only when at the proper time and place they exercise judicial powers. Courts are of record (that is, such that their proceedings are enrolled for perpetual memory) or not of record, general or local, of first instance or appellate, etc. The judicial system differs in different States and countries, and is constantly being modified. See phrases below. 8. Any jurisdiction, customary, ecclesiastical, or military, conferring the power of trial for offenses, the redre of wrongs, etc.: as, a manorial court; an archbishop's court; a court martial.-9. A se ion of a court in either of the two last preceding senses. The archbishop... Held a late court at Duns table. Shak., Hen. VIII., iv. 1. 10. The meeting of a corporation or the principal members of a corporation: as, the court of directors; the court of aldermen. [Eng.]11. Attention directed to a person in power; addre to make favor; the art of insinuation; the art of pleasing; significant attention or adulation: as, to make court (that is, to attempt to please by flattery and addre ); to pay court (to approach with gallantries, to woo). Him the Prince with gentle court did bord. Spenser, F. Q., II. ix. 2. Flatter me, make thy court . Dryden, Aurengzebe. A court in banc. See banc . A friend at or in court. See friend . Archdeacon's court, the lowest in the series of English ecclesiastical courts. Court Christian, The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary IMG:content-1484.png:[blocks in formation] Court leet. See court-leet.- Court martial, a court consisting of military or naval officers summoned to try cases of desertion, mutiny, breach of orders, etc. - Court of Arches, a court of appeal belonging to the Archbishop of Canterbury, and held by the Dean of the Arches, as the official representative of the archbishop. - Court of a istance, the governing body in some old English parishes, corresponding to the selectmen in the United States. - Court of A istants, the highest judicial court of Ma achusetts in the colonial period up to 1692. It consisted of the governor, deputy-governor, and a istants, and was also called the Great Quarter Court. - Court of Attachments, a court formerly held in England, before the verderers of the forest, to attach and try offenders against vert and venison. Court of Brotherhood, an a embly of the mayors or other chief officers of the principal towns of the Cinque Ports of England, originally administering the chief powers of those ports: now almost extinct. See Cinque Ports, under cinque. Court of Claims. (a) A United States court, sitting in Washington, for the investigation of claims against the government. (b) In some States, a county court charged with the financial busine of the county. Court of Common Pleas, originally, in England, a court for the trial of civil actions between subjects. It was one of the three superior courts of common law, but now forms the Common Pleas division of the High Court of Justice. Courts bearing this title exist in several of the United States, having in some cases both civil and criminal jurisdiction over the whole State, while in others the jurisdiction is limited to a county. Court of equity. See equity.-Court of guard. (a) The guard-room of a fort, where soldiers lie. Scott, L. of the L., vi. 2. (6) The soldiers composing the guard. IMG:content-1485.png:[blocks in formation] 'Tis certain the French are the most Polite Nation in the World, and can Praise and Court with a better Air than the rest of Mankind. Lister , Journey to Paris, p. 4. 2. To pay one's addre es; woo. What ki ing and courting was there, When these two cousins did greet! or city, superior in jurisdiction to the lower cla of inferior courts existing in the counties and towns throughout the State: as, the Superior Court of the city of New York; the Superior Court of Cincinnati; the Superior Court of Cook county (Chicago). In Connecticut and Georgia the highest court of original jurisdiction is termed the Superior Court. In Kentucky the name is given to an intermediate court of appeal. - Supreme Court, the designation usually prescribed by law for the highest court of the state or nation which has any original ju Robin Hood and the Stranger (Child's Ballads, V. 407). in old English manors for redre ing misdemeanors, etc., in the manor, and for settling tenants' disputes. It consisted of the freemen or freehold tenants of the manor, presided over by the lord or his steward. It had also some administrative powers, succeeding within its limits to the powers of the former court of the hundred. Also baron - court, freeholders ' court, ma norial court. court-bred (kõrt'bred), a. Bred at court. name is usually given to the court having a general appellate jurisdiction over inferior courts, and original jurisdiction to supervise the proceedings of inferior courts and of public officers, by the special writs of mandamus, certiorari, prohibition, habeas corpus, quo warran to, and the like. The term has no fixed general meaning apart from the statute conferring it. For instance, in many States the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court is purely appellate and supervisory. In England the Supreme Court includes the various divisions, Chancery, Queen's Bench, etc. (formerly called the Superior Courts, which have original and appellate juris diction), and the Court of Appeal (which has no original jurisdiction, but reviews the proceedings of the various divisions); and the decisions of the Court of Appeal are in turn reviewed by appeal to the House of Lords. In New York the name is given to the court having general original jurisdiction at law and in equity throughout the State, of all cla es of actions, civil and criminal, except such minor, local, and peculiar matters as for reasons of convenience are A court of guard about her. Partheneia Sacra (1633). confined in the first instance to inferior courts; and its Court of Guest ling, or of Brotherhood and Guest ling, an a embly of the members of the Court of Brotherhood, together with other representatives of the corporate members of the Cinque Ports of England, invited to sit with the mayors of the seven principal towns. Court of High Commi ion, or High Commi ion Court, an English ecclesiastical court established by Queen Elizabeth and abolished for abuse of power in 1641. The abolition of those three hateful courts , the North ern Council, the Star Chamber, and the High Commi ion , would alone entitle the Long Parliament to the lasting gratitude of English men. Macaulay , Nugent's Hampden. Court of inquiry, a court established by law for the purpose of examining into the nature of any transaction of, or accusation or imputation against, any officer or soldier of the army. Its proceeding is not a trial, but an investigation, generally preliminary to determining whether the accused shall be brought before a court martial for trial. Ives.Court of King's (or Queen's) Bench (so called because the sovereign used to sit in person), formerly, the supreme court of common law in England, now a division of the High Court of Justice. - Court of Lode man a get, an ancient tribunal of the Cinque Ports of England having jurisdiction over pilots or lodemen. - Court of oyer and terminer. See oyer. Court of Probate Acts. See Probate Act, under probate.- Court of Se ion, the supreme civil court of Scotland, consisting of the president and senators of the College of Justice, thirteen in number altogether, eight forming the inner house, which sits in two divisions, and five the outer house. - Court of the clerk of the market, a court incident to an English fair or market. - Court of the Lord High Steward of Great Britain, a court instituted for the trial, during the rece of Parliament, of peers or peere es indicted for treason or felony, or for misprision of either. Stephen. Court of the ordinary, a court held by an English bishop, exercising immediate jurisdiction as such. Court of Trailbaston, a special commi ion instituted by Edward I. for administering criminal justice. - Customary court, formerly, in England, a court-baron when sitting to deal with the rights of the copyholders, the custom of the manor being the rule of decision. In this form of the court-baron tenants probably sat only as jurors. - Days in court. See day1.-Forest court, in England, a court for the government of a royal forest. Freeholders' court. See court baron.-General Court, the designation given in colonial times, and subsequently by the constitutions of those States, to the legislatures of Ma achusetts and New Hampshire. They are so called because the colonial legislature of Ma achusetts grew out of the general court or meeting of the Ma achusetts Company. High Court of Justice, in England, a division of the Supreme Court having original and some appellate jurisdiction. The lord chief justice is its president. - Inferior court. See inferior. Landed Estates Court, a tribunal created by the Irish Land Act of 1870, to facilitate the acquisition of title to land by land by the the tenantry entire in Ireland. - bordar's Lord Mayor's Court, London, and dealing with cases in which the whole cause of action arises within the city of London. - Manorial court. See court - baron. - Maritime courts, such courts as have power and jurisdiction to determine maritime causes, or matters arising upon the high seas, whether civil or criminal, and whether arising out of contract or tort. Minor.- Merchants' Court. Sce Strangers ' Court, below.-Moot court, a fictitious trial, organized for the purpose of affording practice in the trial or argument of causes to those who are studying law. Municipal court, a court whose territorial limits of jurisdiction are conterminous with those of a municipal corporation, and having civil or criminal jurisdiction, or both. Old Court party, New Court party, two opposing parties in Kentucky politics about 1825. The legislature had abolished the Supreme Court, on account of an obnoxious decision against a law to relieve debtors and help a banking enterprise, and substituted a new court in its place; hence the division. Parish court, in Louisiana, one of a cla of local final judgments are for the most part subject to review in the Court of Appeals. But it has also appellate jurisdiction over many inferior courts. In New Jersey the Supreme Court has both original and appellate jurisdiction at law, while the equity jurisdiction is vested in the Court of Chancery, and both are subject to review in the Court of Errors and Appeals. In Connecticut the court of general original jurisdiction in law and equity is termed the Superior Court, and the appellate court is termed the Supreme Court of Errors. In Kentucky the term Superior Court is given to an appellate court, whose decisions are in turn reviewed by a Court of Appeals. The Supreme Court of the United States has original jurisdiction in cases affecting amba adors and other public ministers and consuls, and those in which a State is a party. Its principal busine is in the exercise of its appellate jurisdiction, which includes (subject to complex restrictions in many cla es of causes) civil cases in the courts established by act of Congre ; federal questions determined in State courts of last resort adversely to a claim of federal right; and a supervisory jurisdiction over criminal proceedings in United States circuit courts when two judges are disagreed. - Surrogate's court, in some of the United States, a probate court. The courts of the Lord, the temple at Jerusalem; hence, a church or public place of worship. My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord . Ps. lxxxiv. 2. To fence the court. See fence. (For other courts, see the word characterizing the title, as admiralty, augment a tion, circuit, county, etc.) II. a. Pertaining to a court; adhering to a royal court; characteristic of courts: as, court manners; the court party in the civil wars of England. Court holy-watert, flattery; fine words without deeds. Nares. O nuncle, court holy - water in a dry house is better than this rain-water out o' door. Shak ., Lear, iii. 2. court (kōrt), v. [ sible addre ; seek to When the king was thus courting his old adversaries, the friends of the church were not le active. Macaulay. 2. To seek the love of; pay addre es to; woo; solicit in marriage. He [the captain) fell in love with a young Gentlewoman, and courted her for his Wife. Howell, Letters, I. vi. 20. A you sand court you, though they court in vain. Pope. 3. To attempt to gain by addre ; solicit; seek: as, to court commendation or applause. ap It is a certain exception against a man's receiving applause, that he visibly courts it. Steele , Tatler, No. 202. What can Cato do Against a world, a base, degenerate world, That courts the yoke, and bows the neck to Cæsar? Add is on , Cato, i. 1. They might almost seem to have courted the crown of martyrdom. Pre scott. 4. To hold out inducements to; invite. On we went; but ere an hour had pa 'd, We reach'd a meadow slanting to the north; Down which a well-worn pathway courted us To one green wicket in a privet hedge. Tennyson , The Gardener's Daughter. II. in trans. 1t. To act the courtier; imitate the manners of the court. coat - card (which see). court-chaplain (kort'chap" lận), n. A chaplain to a king or prince. The maids of honour have been fully convinced by a famous court - chaplain . Swift . courtcraft (kōrt'kråft), n. Conduct adapted to gain favor at court; political artifice. court-cupboard (kort'kub"ärd), n. A cabinet or sideboard having a number of shelves for the display of plate, etc. See cupboard. Away with the joint-stools, remove the court cupboard , look to the plate. Shak., R. and J., i. 5. Here shall stand my court - cupboard , with its furniture of plate. Chapman , Mons. D'Olive.