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Definition of County courthouse
1. Noun. The town or city that is the seat of government for a county.
Lexicographical Neighbors of County Courthouse
Literary usage of County courthouse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1909)
"If county commissioners do not keep their county courthouse in good and ...
The building and keeping in proper repair of a county courthouse is part of the ..."
2. Revised Record of the Constitutional Convention of the State of New York by New York (State). Constitutional Convention (1916)
"The county courthouse and the supreme courthouse are the same place. You walk
from the room of the County Court into the room of the Supreme Court, ..."
3. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1919)
"... executed, and delivered to the plaintiff Crane Company a contract for materials
to be used i*> the construction of the Surry county courthouse and jail ..."
4. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"county courthouse. In the United States, the courthouse for one of the ...
In the United States generally called County Building or county courthouse. ..."
5. The Virginia Handbook by Blair Howard (2001)
"Essex county courthouse, built in 1848 to replace the old courthouse, now the
Beale Baptist Church, is a construction of largely Greek Revival design ..."
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