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Admiral
noun · 78% connection
A naval officer of the highest rank; a naval officer of high rank, of which there are different grades. The chief gradations in rank a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formerly, highest, court, common, england.
Agistor
noun · 78% connection
Formerly, an officer of the king's forest, who had the care of cattle agisted, and collected the money for the same; -- hence called g…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formerly, highest, court, common, england.
Antiphrasis
noun · 78% connection
The use of words in a sense opposite to their proper meaning; as when a court of justice is called a court of vengeance.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formerly, highest, court, common, england.
Appeal
noun · 78% connection
(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…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formerly, highest, court, common, england.
Appearance
noun · 78% connection
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…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formerly, highest, court, common, england.
Areopagus
noun · 78% connection
The highest judicial court at Athens. Its sessions were held on Mars' Hill. Hence, any high court or tribunal
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formerly, highest, court, common, england.
Bar
noun · 78% connection
The railing that incloses the place which counsel occupy in courts of justice. Hence, the phrase at the bar of the court signifies in…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formerly, highest, court, common, england.
Baston
noun · 78% connection
An officer bearing a painted staff, who formerly was in attendance upon the king's court to take into custody persons committed by the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formerly, highest, court, common, england.
Bill
noun · 78% connection
A weapon of infantry, in the 14th and 15th centuries. A common form of bill consisted of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped bla…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formerly, highest, court, common, england.
Butlerage
noun · 78% connection
A duty of two shillings on every tun of wine imported into England by merchant strangers; -- so called because paid to the king's butl…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formerly, highest, court, common, england.
Castle
verb · 78% connection
To move the castle to the square next to king, and then the king around the castle to the square next beyond it, for the purpose of co…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formerly, highest, court, common, england.
Certiorari
noun · 78% connection
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…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formerly, highest, court, common, england.
Chancery
noun · 78% connection
In England, formerly, the highest court of judicature next to the Parliament, exercising jurisdiction at law, but chiefly in equity; b…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formerly, highest, court, common, england.
Check
noun · 78% connection
A word of warning denoting that the king is in danger; such a menace of a player's king by an adversary's move as would, if it were an…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formerly, highest, court, common, england.
Contempt
noun · 78% connection
Disobedience of the rules, orders, or process of a court of justice, or of rules or orders of a legislative body; disorderly, contempt…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formerly, highest, court, common, england.
Counterfoil
noun · 78% connection
That part of a tally, formerly in the exchequer, which was kept by an officer in that court, the other, called the stock, being delive…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formerly, highest, court, common, england.
Crown office
unknown · 78% connection
The criminal branch of the Court of King's or Queen's Bench, commonly called the crown side of the court, which takes cognizance of al…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formerly, highest, court, common, england.
Duke
noun · 78% connection
In England, one of the highest order of nobility after princes and princesses of the royal blood and the four archbishops of England a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formerly, highest, court, common, england.
