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, a tribunal that dealt with political offenses.


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