In those days the custom of public tribunals seemed to have created a certain right to listen.
They had often noticed, in the public tribunals of the Convention, this obscure but influential man, whom the people greeted with respect.
From that time also, be it mentioned by way of parenthesis, dates the law imposed on military tribunals in regard to the taking of votes, that of beginning with the lower grade.
At the end of 1790, the old tribunals had no moral power; they could no longer act; the new ones were not yet created.
We ask of the tribunals to empty the prisons by the justification of the innocent, or by examples of justice.
He was all powerful; all manner of offenders were haled before the tribunals over which he presided with fifty-six associate judges and assistants.
Further than this, the Mixed Tribunals were declared incompetent to proceed with the action against the Government.
The theatres, the banks, and the tribunals escaped injury.
It certainly ought not to be difficult for such tribunals to see that a rate which is made higher or lower, as it may be for State or interstate traffic, is wrong.
Mr. Thayer made or procured transcripts of the records of the tribunals in which the struggle for the possession of Karl van Beethoven were made.
The tribunals of the church, even, may be obliged to decide upon partial and incomplete evidence and knowledge of the cause, and afterwards to annul their decisions, as in the case of the heliocentric theory.
The more intrepid, braving the tribunals and their fines, broke through the barriers, and, flinging their names to the guards, went to pray before the grotto.
But these tribunalscannot be always and altogether without a higher and more certain rule to guide them.
In human tribunals the supreme court is presumed to know the law which constitutes it, and it defines its own jurisdiction and powers.
The tribunals are appalled by this universal dishonesty.
Courts and tribunals can do nothing to hinder crimes; their business is to deal with them when done.
The law of 1890 also empowers every citizen to appeal to the tribunals on behalf of the poor, for whose benefit a given charitable institution may have been intended.
In tribunals of justice, in court and camp etiquette, everywhere these relics of barbarism remain with us.
They had tribunals of their own, to which alone they were responsible, for the regulation of all matters of trade.
Each of these tribunals was presided over by two judges, who were very high magnates and usually relatives of the king, and from these an appeal lay to two supreme judges who resided at the capital.
Besides these various tribunals for the general administration of justice, there were others that had jurisdiction in cases of a peculiar nature only.
It was opposed by the parliaments and lay tribunals of the kingdom; but many bishops, and the Jesuits in general, were its most strenuous assertors.
There is something gloomy and dispiriting in the aspect of these tribunals which the crimes of the human race have rendered necessary," observed Georgiana.
If the law cannot maintain its solemn majesty without such wretched aids, heaven knows there must be something radically wrong either in the constitution of the tribunals themselves or in the conduct of the functionaries of justice.
Had you been surrendered up to the justice of the criminal tribunals of your country, you would ere this have ceased to exist: your guilt would have been expiated on the scaffold.
I gave him that explanation, and he answered finally, that Mr. Puchilberg refused all accommodation, and insisted that the matter should be decided by the tribunals of the country.
A dispute arising between two subjects of France, the one being in France and the other in the United States, the regular tribunals of France would seem entitled to a preference of jurisdiction.
But those houses must first retire from the only two propositions they have ever made; to wit, either a payment of their demand without discussion, or a discussion before the tribunals of the country.
We shall attempt to trace in the remaining pages of this chapter the successive steps in the trial of criminal cases before the permanent tribunals at Rome.
In the last chapter, we saw that the proceedings of the permanent tribunals (quaestiones perpetuae) at Rome furnished models for the trial of criminal cases in the provinces.
These permanent tribunals (quaestiones perpetuae) were courts of criminal jurisdiction established at Rome, and were in existence at the time of the crucifixion.
The following chapter will be devoted, in the main, to a description of the mode of trial of capital cases at Rome before the permanent tribunals at the time of Christ.
The necessity for the reform of the criminal law resulted in the institution of permanent tribunals (quaestiones perpetuae).
It is now only necessary to determine what the procedure of the permanent tribunals at the time of Christ was, in order to understand what Pilate should have done in the trial of Jesus.
The same writer tells us that the permanent tribunals for the trial of capital cases did not go out of existence until the third century of the Christian era.
An abdicated or dethroned monarch may preserve his title by the courtesy of other states, but cannot rank with sovereigns in the tribunals where public law is administered.
Finally, these congregations are the final tribunals for the determination of ecclesiastical causes.
Civil tribunals and temporal governments never hesitate to use this right as one necessary to their self-preservation.
In times of peril for a state, exceptional powers are given, extraordinary tribunals created.
If they abuse their trust, they will be accountable, first to the assembled citizens of the district, next to the public tribunals in the city.
The contrast was significant, and one recalled and understood the constant bitter conflict between the judicial tribunals of the State and the judicial tribunals of the Federal Government, bitterly waged and as yet undecided.
Shewing that lay tribunalsare not exactly Punch and Judy shows where the puppet is moved by the man underneath.
But it is not for me to criticise tribunals or men: I have the simple duty to perform of relating the story of the renowned Mr. Bumpkin.
Can we believe that among Papists there have been tribunals imbecile, dull, and barbarous enough to condemn to death poor citizens, who had no other crimes than that of having eaten of horseflesh in Lent?
The tribunals of Pennsylvania followed, in the law of divorce, the German and not the English precedent and process.
I forgot to tell you that my poor Margery [my children's former nurse] has at length applied to the tribunals of Pennsylvania for a separation from her cruel and worthless husband.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tribunals" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
