court of law

English

Alternative forms

• law court

Noun

court of law (plural courts of law)

1. A court presided over by a judge which is empowered to decide all aspects of legal disputes.
2. (archaic) A court which was empowered to decide questions of law and award monetary damages, but could not provide equitable relief, which was reserved for a court of equity.

Synonyms

• court of justice

Translations

court presided over by a judge — see also court of justice

• Afrikaans: geregshof
• Albanian: gjyq (sq) m
• Armenian: դատարան (hy) (dataran)
• Azerbaijani: ədələt məhkəməsi
• Bulgarian: съд (bg) m (sǎd)
• Burmese: တရားရုံး (my) (ta.ra:rum:)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 法庭 (zh) (fǎtíng)

• Czech: soud (cs) m
• Danish: domstol (da) c
• Dutch: rechtbank (nl) c, gerechtshof (nl) n
• Finnish: tuomioistuin (fi)
• French: tribunal (fr) m, cour de justice f
• Georgian: სასამართლო (sasamartlo)
• German: Gericht (de) n, Gerichtshof (de) m
• Greek: δικαστήριο (el) n (dikastírio)
• Hungarian: bíróság (hu), törvényszék (hu)
• Latin: tribūnal n, considium n, iūs (la) n, forum (la) n
• Macedonian: суд m (sud)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: domstol (no) m

  Nynorsk: domstol (no) m

• Ottoman Turkish: مجلس (meclis)
• Polish: sąd (pl) m, trybunał (pl) m
• Portuguese: tribunal (pt) m
• Romanian: tribunal (ro) n, curte de judecată f, judecătorie (ro)
• Russian: суд (ru) m (sud), трибуна́л (ru) m (tribunál)
• Shan: လုမ်းတြႃး (lúm tráa)
• Spanish: tribunal de justicia m
• Swedish: domstol (sv) c
• Thai: ศาลยุติธรรม (sǎan-yút-dtì-tam)
• Turkish: adliye (tr)
• Uzbek: adliya (uz)
• Zazaki: soret f, edliya (diq) f