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Lower court   /lˈoʊər kɔrt/   Listen
Lower court

noun
1.
Any court whose decisions can be appealed to a higher court.  Synonym: inferior court.






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"Lower court" Quotes from Famous Books



... presence of the cock was not requisite, that its crowing produced exactly the same effect on the adopted son of Tiberius. Now, the crowing may be heard a long way off; the crowing, then, would seem to possess the power of transporting the corporeal emanations of the king of the lower court with great rapidity through space. The thing may appear difficult to believe. As for myself, I think it would be puerile to stop at such a difficulty; have we not leaped high over ...
— Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men • Francois Arago

... Trinity' has started against us, and will soon be campaigning all over England. The orthodox newspapers are all in full cry. Meanwhile the Bishops are only waiting for the decision of my case—the test case—in the lower court to take us all by detachments. Every case, of course, will go ultimately to the Supreme Court—the Privy Council. A hundred cases—that will take time! Meanwhile—from us—a monster petition—first to the Bishops for the assembling of a full Council ...
— The Case of Richard Meynell • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... near Lower Court, is eight or nine miles south-west of Caermarthen, near the confluence of the rivers Taf ...
— Thomas Hariot • Henry Stevens

... case was at one time in a high court on the assumption that the "van" in Beethoven's name indicated nobility. The widow contested this, and brought action requesting that the case be tried in a lower court. When Beethoven was examined on this issue, he pointed to his head and heart, saying, "my nobility is here and here." "van" is not a sign of nobility like the German "von," and the case was sent to ...
— Beethoven • George Alexander Fischer



Words linked to "Lower court" :   tribunal, judicature, court



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