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n. - Room in which justice is administered according to the rules of government.

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Usage examples (10)
  • The latter is examined only in the lawcourt, like other magistrates
  • I who am fool enough to speak seriously of such things in a lawcourt?
  • Of course it was wrong of him to annex those wigs and gowns, and sell them for theatrical "properties," but it is impossible not to admire the pluck of a man who stole from a...
  • It dealt with details of service in some lawcourt in the provinces, of prosecutors and presidents, of some department intrigues, of the depravity of some registration...
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