Your Honor
Courtroom formal greeting
Your Honor is a formal title of address for judges and certain other officials presiding over legal proceedings.
Attorneys, defendants, and witnesses use it when speaking directly to a judge: Your Honor, I object to that characterization.
The British spelling is Your Honour.
The phrase signals deference to the authority of the court.
- chief justicePresiding judge, highest court
- objectionExpression of disapproval
- judgeOne who decides
- I objectFormal verbal disagreement
- trialJudicial examination of claims
sustained · magistrate · overruled · jurisdiction · precedent · sentencing · court is adjourned · Sir · bailiff · adjudicator · hearing · plea bargain · motion to dismiss · deposition · counsel · circuit judge · ruling · arraignment
- Legal DramasThe Good Wife, The Good Fight, Boston Legal, LA Law, Perry Mason
- courtroom etiquettestanding, rising, posture, respect, objection
- honorificssir, madam, Mr, Mrs, Ms
- titlesMr., Mrs., Ms., Dr., Miss