No person shall be convicted of any crime but by the unanimous verdict of a jury of good and lawful men in open court.
No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.
King, in open court, pronounced a capital offense, for which a whole community were prejudged and sentenced to death.
Law) Defn: An application made to a court or judge orally in open court.
Law) Defn: The exhibition or production of a record or paper in open court, or an allegation that it is in court.
I had about me the paper which I had written as a testimony against plots, which I desired they would read, or suffer to be read, in open court; but they would not.
I said to him, "If they will read it out in open court, that I may hear it, if it is mine I will own it, and stand by it.
I suppose you know a person so complained of--or accused, as you put it--has the right to a jury trial in open court.
It was explained to her that under the law she had the right to demand a hearing inopen court before a jury chosen to pass upon her sanity.
This worthy gentleman declared in open court that it was not legal, and that it ought not to have the least weight in the minds of the jurors; upon which it was ruled, that the witness should proceed no further, and he was dismiss'd.
On the understanding of words, a very admirable little book is Ribot's "Evolution of General Ideas," Open Court Co.
A group of low-gabled buildings surrounded an open court.
The bit of sky framed by these four garden walls always seemed more delicate in tone than that which covered the open court-yard.
Yet in her Examination and Confession, she dealt alwayes very plainely and truely: for vpon a speciall occasion being oftentimes examined in open Court, shee was neuer found to vary, but alwayes to agree in one, and the selfe same thing.
We see from the plan that we have the ruins of a larger building arranged around an open court--at least, Mr. Jackson could detect no trace of a wall in front.
Probably the original inhabitants built a continuous structure close to the edge of the platform, leaving the interior for an open court.
The law presumes an open court at a legal hour, and held in broad daylight.
It had no less than eight chambers, a long passage, an open court, and a pit.
It consists of (1) a long corridor having an eastern frontage with some eighteen openings, which give access to a rock-cutting of the nature of an open court.
Beside the road was a high wall, and in it a gate leading to an open court, at one end of which stood the house.
The rooms of the house stood around an open court, and Peter stood in the court among the servants and policemen.
This was a large building with rooms around an open court.
The prosecutor conducted his own case: witnesses were examined in open court, and the accused was unassisted by counsel.
The judge (he said) "might have found himself often required in open court to deny the validity of a colonial ordinance, on the ground of repugnancy.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "open court" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
