courts
Defined in 3 dictionaries — U.S. Code, Black's (1891), Stimson (1881)
United States Code
28 U.S.C. § 610 — as used in this chapter
As used in this chapter the word “courts” includes the courts of appeals and district courts of the United States, the United States District Court for the District of the Canal Zone, the District Court of Guam, the District Court of the Virgin Islands, the United States Court of Federal Claims, and the Court of International Trade.
28 U.S.C. § 963 — as used in this chapter
As used in this chapter, unless the context indicates otherwise, the words “court” and “courts” include the Supreme Court of the United States and the courts enumerated in section 610 of this title.
42 U.S.C. § 13925 — in this subchapter (2 versions over time)
The term “courts” means any civil or criminal, tribal, and Alaska Native Village, Federal, State, local or territorial court having jurisdiction to address domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault or stalking, including immigration, family, juvenile, and dependency courts, and the judicial officers serving in those courts, including judges, magistrate judges, commissioners, justices of the peace, or any other person with decisionmaking authority.
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
Officers appointed by and attached to the circuit courls of the United States, performing functions partly ministerialand partly judicial. Toa certain extent they represent the judge in his absence. In the. examination of persons arrested for violations of the laws of the United States they have the powers of committing magistrates. They also take bail, recognizances, affidavits, etc., and hear preliminary proceedings for foreign extradition. ‘
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
holden before their stewof error lay to the (60.) Court recorder, and sheriffs; and the King's commission, who sat; thence to the House of Court for the City of Lonnow become the county court for Court in London has ^oth; and is presided over by the Common Sergeant. The (63.) Requests were tribunals, not of other towns, for the recovery by the county courts, and of Policies of Assurance for determining summarily all insurance on merchandise in Lonlong before obsolete. 65. The estabhshed in Oxford and Cam- Court had jurisdiction of perof members of the University; High Steward had jurisdiction committed by members of the governed by the rules of the particularly in Cambridge, The courts of the Counties court of mixed jurisdiction, has of Common Pleas at Lan- Durham have lost their jurisof 1873; but the Chancery retained. 71. The Courts of the private courts of extensive juris- FV. and 1 Will. IV., when Wales the judges of assize. 72. The of Devonshire and Vice-Warden, with This appellate of Appeal; and the county court. In or Berghmote Great and Small, of the Peak. 74. ment of the ^m^s or covert. They ■Wood-mote, or the forest, to inquire the (76.) Court of S'v^einmote, held inquire into grievances and to try presentments and of (78.) to determine all All these courts were F. Ecclesiastical or Courts Christian. sisted of councils, the clergy, and had of causes concerning vincial, or diocesan; the last was the times. This last pecuniary (withholding the relations of the mentary (the probate kinds of jurisdiction and the Court for 52), and are now The law of ecclesiastical canon law; and they number: the Court of Arches, the of the two archbishops, Cornwall. They were presided over by the appeal to the Lord Warden, of the Stannaries. jurisdiction is now transferred to the High Court plaintiff may, in the first instance, sue in the like manner, there are two (73.) Barmote