byret

Danish

The court of Odense.

Etymology

by (“city”) +‎ ret (“court”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbyˌʁad/

Noun

byret c (singular definite byretten, plural indefinite byretter)

1. (Denmark, law) one of the 24 courts (+2 in Greenland and the Faroe Islands) that serve as court of first instance for minor cases; cases may be appealed to the two landsretter (“national courts”), and from there to højesteretten (“the supreme court”)

Inflection

Declension of byret

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	byret	byretten	byretter	byretterne
genitive	byrets	byrettens	byretters	byretternes

Derived terms

• byretsdom
• byretspræsident

See also

• landsret
• højesteret

References

• “byret” in Den Danske Ordbog