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people’s court

people’s court. 1. A court in which individuals can resolve small disputes. See small-claims court under COURT. [Cases: Courts 174. 1.] 2. In totalitarian countries, a group of nonlawyer citizens, often illiterate commoners, convened at the scene of a crime to pass judgment or impose punishment on the accused criminal. 3. (cap.) In Nazi Germany, […]

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hallmote

hallmote (hahl-moht), n. 1. Hist. A court baron; specif., an annual court, presided over by the lord of the manor, to decide civil disputes between feudal tenants. • The court was usu. held in the manor’s great hall. See COURT BARON. 2. A trade-guild’s commercial court, in which guild members were tried for trade-related offenses

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