COURT OF LAW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does court of law mean? 

• COURT OF LAW (noun)
  The noun COURT OF LAW has 1 sense:

1. a tribunal that is presided over by a magistrate or by one or more judges who administer justice according to the laws

  Familiarity information: COURT OF LAW used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COURT OF LAW (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A tribunal that is presided over by a magistrate or by one or more judges who administer justice according to the laws

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

court; court of justice; court of law; law court; lawcourt

Hypernyms ("court of law" is a kind of...):

court; judicature; tribunal (an assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business)

 Context examples 

Here was this irreproachable Englishman ready to swear in any court of law that the accused was in the house all the time.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Having been placed in a file; recorded in a public office or in a court of law.

(Filed, NCI Thesaurus)

If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up, said he, of course you can hardly avoid publicity.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But the Professor was fenced round with safeguards so cunningly devised that, do what I would, it seemed impossible to get evidence which would convict in a court of law.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

That night—I tell you now what it would be a bitter thing for me to tell in a court of law—I was restless and sleepless, as often happens when a man has kept awake over long.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)