Courtly: alternatives and connections

The process of removing a cause from an inferior court to the supreme court.

The use of words in a sense opposite to their proper meaning; as when a court of justice is called a court of vengeance.

A brief letter dimissory sent by a court appealed from to the superior court, stating the case, etc.; a paper sent up on appeals in th…

(law) a legal proceeding in which the appellant resorts to a higher court for the purpose of obtaining a review of a lower court decis…

The coming into court of either of the parties; the being present in court; the coming into court of a party summoned in an action, ei…

The highest judicial court at Athens. Its sessions were held on Mars' Hill. Hence, any high court or tribunal

A court, the sitting or session of a court, for the trial of processes, whether civil or criminal, by a judge and jury.

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…

The railing that incloses the place which counsel occupy in courts of justice. Hence, the phrase at the bar of the court signifies in…

An officer bearing a painted staff, who formerly was in attendance upon the king's court to take into custody persons committed by the…

A court or meeting of a burgh or borough; a borough court held three times yearly.

One of a court of about one hundred judges chosen to try civil suits. Under the empire the court was increased to 180, and met usually…

A writ issuing out of chancery, or a superior court, to call up the records of a inferior court, or remove a cause there depending, in…

A judicial court of chancery, which in England and in the United States is distinctively a court with equity jurisdiction.

In England, formerly, the highest court of judicature next to the Parliament, exercising jurisdiction at law, but chiefly in equity; b…

(law) a judicial division of a state or the United States (so-called because originally judges traveled and held court in different lo…

Disobedience of the rules, orders, or process of a court of justice, or of rules or orders of a legislative body; disorderly, contempt…

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 w…