High-court synonyms

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superior court
A court of general competence which typically has unlimited jurisdiction with regard to civil and criminal legal cases in the lowest hierarchy of a judiciary in a common law system.
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supreme court (related)
The highest court in most states
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state supreme court
the highest court in most states of the United States
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court-of-record
A court which has a permanent record of its proceedings maintained
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trial court
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High-court Sentence Examples

  • An industrial commission appointed during this year by President Kruger fared no better than the high court had done.

  • As the proper form of address "my lord" is used not only to those members of the nobility to whom the title "Lord" is applicable, and to bishops, but also to all judges of the High Court in England, and of the Scottish and Irish Superior Courts, and to lord mayors and lord provosts.

  • The bailiff then becomes liable for non-execution, mis-execution or insufficient return of any writs, and in the case of non-return of any writ, if the sheriff returns that he has delivered the writ to a bailiff of a liberty, the sheriff will be ordered to execute the writ notwithstanding the liberty, and must cause the bailiff to attend before the high court of justice and answer why he did not execute the writ.

  • A nominated legislative council was created, a high court established and other steps taken for the orderly government of the country, which was officially styled the Orange River Sovereignty.

  • The High Court acquitted him, and criticism then fell upon the government.

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