court of law

court of law

English

Alternative forms

• law court

Noun

court of law (plural courts of law)

1. A court presided over by a judge which is empowered to decide all aspects of legal disputes.
2. (archaic) A court which was empowered to decide questions of law and award monetary damages, but could not provide equitable relief, which was reserved for a court of equity.

Synonyms

• court of justice

Translations

court presided over by a judge

Albanian: gjyq (sq) m Armenian: դատարան (hy) (dataran) Azerbaijani: ədələt məhkəməsi Burmese: တရားရုံး (my) (ta.ra:rum:) Chinese: Mandarin: 法庭 (zh) (fǎtíng) Czech: soud (cs) m Danish: domstol (da) c Dutch: rechtbank (nl) c, gerechtshof (nl) n Finnish: tuomioistuin (fi) French: tribunal (fr) m, cour de la justice f Georgian: სასამართლო (sasamartlo) German: Gericht (de) n Hungarian: bíróság (hu), törvényszék (hu)

Latin: tribūnal n Macedonian: суд m (sud) Norwegian: Bokmål: domstol (no) m Nynorsk: domstol (no) m Polish: sąd (pl) m, trybunał (pl) m Portuguese: tribunal (pt) m Romanian: tribunal (ro) n, curte de judecată f, judecătorie (ro) Russian: суд (ru) m (sud), трибуна́л (ru) m (tribunál) Spanish: please add this translation if you can Swedish: domstol (sv) c Turkish: adliye (tr) Uzbek: adliya (uz)