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A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
Lat. A court of justice, or judicial tribunal; a place of jurisdiction; a place where a remedy is sought; a place of litigation.
8 Story, 347.
In Roman law. The market place, or public paved court, in the city of Rome, where such public business was transacted as the assemblies of the people and the judicial trial of causes, and where also clections, markets, and the public exchange were held.