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Example sentences for "courts"

Lexicographically close words:
courtly; courtmartial; courtmen; courtoisie; courtroom; courtship; courtships; courtsied; courtyard; courtyards
  1. And does not this very idea of uniformity necessarily imply that the construction given by the national courts is to be the prevailing construction?

  2. This most mournful and lamentable event has called together the whole Bar of Suffolk, and all connected with the courts of law or the profession.

  3. But I contend, further, that it rightfully belongs to Congress, and to the courts of the United States, to settle the construction of this supreme law, in doubtful cases.

  4. This requires all State judges and jurors in the State courts to swear that they will execute the ordinance, and all acts of the legislature passed in pursuance thereof.

  5. For the cause had to be tried in the courts of legislative reason before it could come to trial on field of battle.

  6. And its authors further say, that, appealing with confidence to the Constitution itself, to justify their opinions, they cannot consent to try their accuracy by the courts of justice.

  7. Abuses, it is contended, might arise in the management of such institutions, which the ordinary courts of law would be unable to correct.

  8. There would be no general, permanent law for courts to administer or men to live under.

  9. Can the courts of the United States take notice of the indulgence of a State to commit treason?

  10. Secondly, there is the further development of The Hague Tribunal, of the work of the conferences and courts at The Hague.

  11. Nothing is more calculated to interest the stranger as he wanders through Seville, than a view of these courts obtained from the streets, through the iron-grated door.

  12. These dungeons were roomy enough to contain respectively from one hundred to one hundred and fifty prisoners, who were at night secured therein with lock and bar, but during the day were permitted to roam about the courts as they thought fit.

  13. At touch of the man's hand upon her flesh the girl went pallid beneath her coppery skin, for the persons of the royal women of the courts of Mars are held but little less than sacred.

  14. In the courts of our fathers men do not prostrate themselves before royalty.

  15. In youth he had tried to find a bride at the courts of several of his powerful neighbours, but their women would have none of him.

  16. For what else is the source of the abuse of justice and the universal corruption of the courts of law but its insatiable rapacity?

  17. The smaller courts soon followed the example of the government of the country.

  18. The respectability of the provincial courts decreased as theirs extended, and with the respectability of the municipal functionaries the administration of justice and civil order declined.

  19. Besides being in the service of the King of Poland, he was for a considerable time at the various courts of Germany, and twice in England, where he composed several operas, and where Dr.

  20. Do ye not wonder that we are not fat and flourishing, as palms and cedars in the courts of our God?

  21. He is greatly feared and reverenced in the assemblies that are above, in the upper courts of angels.

  22. And thus church assemblies have no beauty, such as the courts of Jesus Christ should have.

  23. The dues which, in cases of scandal, were exacted by the ecclesiastical courts of Scotland, were imposed and defined by acts of parliament.

  24. So that it actually happens that the poor mother in the courts of the metropolis can obtain milk easier than her far-away sister in those fabulous fields which the city woman has never seen, and, perhaps, never will.

  25. Some of these court-leets or manor courts are only held at intervals of three years, or even more, and are generally composed of farmers, presided over by the legal agent of the lord of the manor.

  26. The Supreme Court of Ohio, United States Courts of Pennsylvania and Michigan, the Cleveland Bench and Bar, and the City Government were fully represented at the ceremonies, which were also participated in by a very large concourse of citizens.

  27. In March, 1836, Cleveland was incorporated as a city, and henceforth to the ordinary courts of the county was added a city court for cognizance of offences against the ordinances.

  28. But in a cause where his convictions of justice and of legal right were fixed, there was not among his contemporaries, in the courts of this State, an advocate, whose efforts were so nearly irresistible before a jury.

  29. Alfred Kelley was his successor, commencing his legal career as soon as the county courts were organized in 1810.

  30. His promptness in the courts was proverbial.

  31. Judge Willson reviewed the matter at length, citing precedents of the English and American courts for several centuries to show that the action was legal.

  32. And especially should courts and juries do their whole duty, without respect to persons, when crimes are committed, tending to the subversion of the Government and the destruction of our cherished institutions.

  33. As a judge he was eminently successful, his decisions having been overruled by higher courts only in a single instance, and that owing to a clerical mistake.

  34. Allen, being admitted to practice in the Ohio Courts in the year 1836.

  35. Mr. Collins read law with his father, and was admitted to practice in the courts of New York, at Rochester, in September, 1813.

  36. We should not drive a people to anarchy"; for protection to life and property, the South's civil courts and governments should be allowed to remain in operation.

  37. Klans took administration of justice into their own hands because courts were ineffective.

  38. Some local governments and courts continued in operation subject to military power; military tribunals and Freedmen's Bureaus were established.

  39. I have heard Vance McGregor call him a dog, a thief--and he would take it," says a lawyer who practised in the same courts with him.

  40. No man could endure the calm light of that look; and ambassadors trained at courts on appearing before Yeremi were seen to grow confused and unable to begin their discourse.

  41. So evident a heresy in the common law ought not to be tolerated on the authority of two or three civilians, who happened, unfortunately, to make authority in the courts of England.

  42. She will surely avoid it, if not forced into it by the courts of London and Berlin.

  43. You will see, in one of the Leyden gazettes, one of the letters written by the ministers of England to the courts of their respective residence, communicating the declaration before mentioned.

  44. We have for some time expected, that the Chevalier de la Luzerne would obtain a promotion in the diplomatic line, by being appointed to some of the courts where this country keeps an ambassador.

  45. Even their courts are pacific from impotence only, not from disposition.

  46. It is true, that the distrust existing between the two courts of Versailles and London, is so great, that they can scarcely do business together.

  47. Notwithstanding the aversion of the courts of London and Versailles to war, it is not certain that some incident may not engage them in it.

  48. It has been translated into French and Italian, has been sent to most of the courts of Europe, and has been the best evidence of the falsehood of those reports, which stated us to be in anarchy.

  49. But all this is in embryo, uncertainly known, and counterworked by the machinations of the courts of London and Berlin.

  50. Courts love the people always, as wolves do the sheep.

  51. This will contain the east, north and south gates of the outer court, and four corner courts where the Levites will bake and boil the sacrifices of the people.

  52. Both inner and outer courts will be adorned with colonnades of pillars, probably along the inner border of the pavements, typing those on each plane of being who shall be "pillars in the house of Jehovah.

  53. The lesser elevation of the plane of these pavements, courts and ways, types the lower plane of Spiritual being of the persons, and their activities type things to be done on that plane.

  54. This activity of the Great Company is typed in the boiling places at the courts in the corners of the lower pavement.

  55. In this square will be the walls, courts and structures of the sanctuary.

  56. At the rear or west end of the upper pavement will be little square courts, similar to the corner courts of the lower pavement, and used by the priests for boiling and baking the sacrifices eaten by the priests.

  57. They--Christ and His Bride, in whose blest Heavenly courts the Beloved Bridesmaids will always find their happy station.

  58. Each of the four corner courts upon the lower pavement will be 30 by 40 cubits in size and will be surrounded by a row of structures under which will be the boiling places for the preparation of their sacrifices to be eaten by the people.

  59. It would utterly be condemned--Despised by the courts of Heaven.

  60. And He said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go ye forth.

  61. Entrance at the north or south gates of the inner or outer courts signifies, not participation in, but benefit from the Sin Offering.

  62. We spoke of the fact that in our newly opened Law Courts one could already lay one's finger upon so many talented and remarkable young barristers.

  63. Judicial officers are appointed by the governor and council; justices of the peace for five years, judges of the higher courts during good behavior.

  64. A supreme court; circuit courts to be held in each county; and inferior courts of law and equity, to be established by the general assembly.

  65. Courts of chancery were established, it is believed, in a majority of the old states.

  66. It embraces the several courts of the state.

  67. A supreme court, such inferior courts as the legislature may establish, and justices' courts.

  68. All judicial officers are appointed by the governor and council; justices of the higher courts during good behavior, justices of the peace for seven years.

  69. There is another kind of courts which are in their nature different from ordinary law courts, and are called probate courts.

  70. A supreme court and such inferior courts as the legislature may establish, and justices of the peace.

  71. Inferior local courts may be established in the cities by the legislature.

  72. These offenses are tried in the courts of the United States.

  73. The first two sections provide for the organization, and prescribe the powers, of the courts of the United States.

  74. The judges of the circuits constituting a section, and the judge of the supreme court of appeals for that section, hold district courts in such section.

  75. An attorney, elected or appointed for that purpose, attends all courts in which persons are tried in the county for crimes committed therein, and conducts the prosecutions in the trial of the offenders.

  76. The counts of Louvain made their homes there, and the dukes of Burgundy, who united Flanders and Brabant, frequently held their courts there in the century following.

  77. The justices of the courts are of mixed nationality, but the most important civil and military positions are kept for Belgians.

  78. There are various classes of courts and therefore various kinds of judges.

  79. Thus, in England and in the United States courts of equity are those that take care of defined special cases for which there is no remedy in the usual or common law courts (Robinson, Elementary Law, Sec.

  80. According to the law which they use courts are ecclesiastical or secular.

  81. We pass now from injustices committed by deed to those committed by words, and shall consider first unjust words spoken in courts of law and next unjust words spoken in private or outside of legal processes.

  82. Hence, if the courts declare a will to be of no effect, because it was not drawn legally, the decision is binding under sin.

  83. According to the form of procedure used and the remedies applied, courts in the United States are divided into courts of common law, courts of equity, probate, admiralty, and military courts.

  84. According to the cases they try, courts are either civil (in which redress of private injuries is sought) or criminal (in which the community prosecutes public wrongs).

  85. The decision of doubtful cases before the courts was the purpose of the judicial duels fought among the Germans and Lombards in the early Middle Ages.

  86. A judge must be above suspicion, since respect for the courts is the very life of the State.

  87. Thus, according to their relative dignity and jurisdiction there are higher and lower courts, courts of the first, second and last instance.

  88. The palace is an immense building, containing, besides the apartments of the President and his Ministers, all the chief courts of justice.

  89. In further defining the duties and powers of this court, the law created what was called a general term, to which all appeals from, and application for the correction of errors by the district and circuit courts would lie.

  90. Many of the early members of the bar were men of education and refinement, possessing a snappy humor that set courts and juries roaring.

  91. For thirty years he was a member of that body and materially assisted in laying down many sound legal principles which courts in the west have since followed.

  92. One night Robert Ellis entered the Phillips Hotel while Johnson was heaping abuse on the Bennett party and on the courts of Iowa, telling Gen.

  93. Outlaws preferred to hover on the frontier where courts of justice were unknown and where the sons of toil, busy with making a living, had no time to defend themselves against outlawry.

  94. The justice courts in olden times were held under the oaks in summer and in blacksmith shops and grist mills in colder weather, and here when law was not made, the politics and gossip of the day were often discussed.

  95. Principally with reference to such portions of it as concern the Administration of Justice in the Courts in India.

  96. The courts sate, but they could not pronounce the officers arraigned before them guilty of any offence.

  97. Some of them were to be tried by courts-martial, or to be summoned before courts of inquiry, for abandoning their posts, going over to the enemy, or otherwise disgracing themselves.

  98. Popular opinion and the decision of the courts accord this invention to Thomas A.

  99. He had been there pretty frequently during the past week--that and the Cove were his only courts of welcome.

  100. His love of courts and their splendour was the chivalrous homage which a man of his cast of mind paid to the dignity and picturesqueness of high estate.


  101. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "courts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.