{"id":359905,"date":"2013-01-28T16:34:14","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T21:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.findlaw-admin.com\/ability-law\/dictionary\/definition\/court.html"},"modified":"2013-01-28T16:34:14","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T21:34:14","slug":"court","status":"publish","type":"dictionary","link":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/definition\/court.html","title":{"rendered":"Court"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"fl-index-heading\">\n    <p>term:<\/p>\n    <h1 class=\"fl-h1 fl-mb20\"><\/h1>\n\n    <dl class=\"fl-index-heading-description-list\">\n            <dt class=\"fl-mb10\"><p class=\"fl-text-bold\">n<\/p><\/dt>\n        <dd><p>&#91;Old French, enclosed space, royal entourage, court of justice, from Latin <i>cohort<\/i>&#8211; <i>cohors<\/i> farmyard, armed force, retinue&#93;<br \/>  <b>1 a<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> an official assembly for the administration of justice <br \/>  <b>:<\/b> a unit of the judicial branch of government &#91;the judicial power of the United States shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior <i>s<\/i> as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish &#8220;<i>U.S. Constitution<\/i> art. III&#8221;&#93; see also the Judicial System in the back matter <br \/>  <b>b<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> a session of such a court <br \/>  <b>c<\/b>  <i>usu cap<\/i><br \/>  <b>:<\/b> the Supreme Court of the United States <br \/>  <b>2<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> a place (as a building, hall, or room) for the administration of justice &#91;order in the &#93; <br \/>  <b>3<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> a judge or judges acting in official capacity &#91;an issue to be decided by the &#93; &#91;the may neither preside at nor attend the meeting of creditors &#8220;J. H. Williamson&#8221;&#93; <br \/>  <b>4<\/b>  <i>usu cap<\/i><br \/>  <b>:<\/b> a legislative body &#91;the General <i>Court<\/i> of Massachusetts&#93; <br \/>  <b>5<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> a body (as the International Court of Justice) exercising judicial powers over its members or the members of a body represented by it &#91;an ecclesiastical &#93; <br \/>  <b><br \/>  <b>out of court<\/b><br \/>  <b>:<\/b> without a court hearing <br \/>  <b>:<\/b> by private arrangement &#91;settled <i>out of court<\/i>&#93; <br \/>  <\/b><\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n    <div class=\"fl-index-heading-source\">Source: Merriam-Webster&#8217;s Dictionary of Law \u00a91996. Merriam-Webster, Incorporated. Published under license with Merriam-Webster, Incorporated.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is &#8216;Court&#8217;? Learn more about legal terms and the law at FindLaw.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"parent":358119,"menu_order":0,"template":"app\/Http\/Controllers\/Templates\/DictionaryArticleController.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","_autodraft_ids":[],"_cloudinary_featured_overwrite":false,"_sb_is_suggestion_mode":false,"_sb_show_suggestion_boards":false,"_sb_show_comment_boards":false,"_sb_suggestion_history":"","_sb_update_block_changes":"","_is_real_time_mode":false,"_realtime_collaborators":"","cf_checklist_status":[]},"dictionary_tags":[],"class_list":["post-359905","dictionary","type-dictionary","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary\/359905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/dictionary"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary\/358119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"dictionary_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary_tags?post=359905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}