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2. Verb. (third-person singular of court) ¹

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Definition of Courts

1. court [v] - See also: court

Lexicographical Neighbors of Courts

Literary usage of Courts

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Reeve (1900)
"It was, therefore, necessary to allow one of these courts to judge its own ... To grant this privilege to the different courts of the States would have been ..."

2. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting by New Jersey Health and Sanitary Association, Council for High Blood Pressure Research (American Heart Association) (1904)
"Present Attitude of the Law and courts Towards Sanitary Science. BY JUDGE JOHN A. BLAIR, OF JERSEY CITY. The subject, "The Present Attitude of the Law and ..."

3. The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States, Being by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay, Henry Cabot Lodge (1888)
"Either this must be the case, or the local courts must be excluded from a ... The courts of the latter will of course be natural auxiliaries to the ..."

4. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by Anna Lorraine Guthrie, Marion A. Knight, H.W. Wilson Company, Estella E. Painter (1920)
"Am Pol Sei R 10:700-9 N '16 Power- of courts to declare a statute void which conflicts with the Constitution. G: W. Williams. Arn Law R 52:497-516 Jl '18 ..."

5. The American Historical Review by American Historical Association (1903)
"It may mean no more than that the courts had fallen into disorder in the matters ... The writ shows clearly that these courts have been meeting constantly, ..."

6. General Laws of the State of Texas by Texas (1876)
"And, whereas, by the changes herein made of the times of holding the district courts of said district, a conflict would arise between, the present law and ..."

7. A Treatise on the Principles of Pleading in Civil Actions: Comprising a by Henry John Stephen, Franklin Fiske Heard (1867)
"The case is the same with the Exchequer; [ *5 ] but both these courts are still excluded* from the cognizance of actions real and ..."

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