As a tribunal it had no legal status.

When sitting in its capacity as a criminal court it is known as the tribunal correctionnel.

Under cover of a storm, they opened the city-gates to their allies and proceeded to murder Ananus the high priest, and, against the verdict of a formal tribunal, Zacharias the son of Baruch in the midst of the Temple.

In 1481, three years after the Sixtine commission, a tribunal was inaugurated at Seville, where freedom of speech and licence of manner were rife.

In the absence of a tribunal de commerce commercial cases come before the ordinary tribunal darrondissement.