Open court
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
This term may mean either a court which has been formally convened and declared open for the transaction of its proper judicial business, or a court which is freely open to the approach of all decent and orderly persons in the character of spectators.
Hobart v. Hobart, 45 Iowa, 501; Conover v. Bird, 56 N. J. Law, 228, 28 Atl. 428; Ex parte Branch, 63 Ala. 383; Hays v. Railroad Go., 99 Md. 413, 58 Atl. 439.