law courts
Where trials happen
Law courts are the buildings or institutions where legal cases are heard and judged.
The term emphasizes the physical or organizational setting where justice is administered: The law courts were packed with spectators for the trial.
In British usage especially, law courts may refer to a complex housing multiple courtrooms under one roof.
- benchShared seating surface
- tribunalJudicial decision-making body
- judiciaryLaw-interpreting government branch
- plaintiffCivil case initiator
- verdictOfficial court decision
guilty verdict · magistrates · litigation · witness stand · sworn testimony · jurisprudence · defendant · prosecution · robes · summons · jury duty · defense · oath · opening statement · testimony · objection · closing argument · justice
- Roman rhetoricoratory, Cicero, eloquence, rhetoric, rostra
- Ancient RomeRome, Julius Caesar, Caesar, gladiator, gladiators
- courtsmagistrates, tribunals
- rhetoricrhetoric, persuasion, oratory, argumentation, debate
- Ancient Agorastoa, marketplace, civic center, public space, columns
- ancient forumsforum, agora, public square, stoa, colonnade
law courtsarbitration
Non-court binding dispute resolution
mediation · out-of-court settlement · backroom deals · negotiation · tribal councils
law courtsvigilante justice
Unauthorized punishment by civilians
mob rule · lynch mobs · lawlessness · anarchy · vigilantism
law, court, lawyer, laws, lawful, lawless, courts, lawyers, courtship