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/trˈaɪəl kɔrt/ Listen

Trial court

noun

The first court before which the facts of a case are decided.

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"Trial court" Quotes from Famous Books

... of financial business, now goes a step further, though to the men of that time—if they had thought about it at all—it would have seemed a classification of business, not a dividing up of the king's court. The great curia regis, the exchequer, and the permanent trial court, usually meeting at Westminster, were all the same king's court; but a step had really been taken toward a specialized judicial system and an official ...

— The History of England From the Norman Conquest - to the Death of John (1066-1216) • George Burton Adams

... Jesuits were conducting through the city, some Polish nobles of the Jesuit college had insulted some citizens and schoolboys, and the angered populace had broken into the Jesuit school and college and inflicted damage. This petty street-riot had been brought up in the Polish parliament, sitting as a trial court, and the parliament, after a passionate speech by the leader of the Jesuits, had condemned to death the two burgomasters of the city and sixteen citizens; whereupon the Jesuit party hastened to put to death the head burgomaster, ...

— The German Classics Of The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 • Various

Words linked to "Trial court" : judicature, law, court, tribunal, jurisprudence