Court

A court is a tribunal, often as governmental institution, with the authority to adjudicate legal disputes between parties and carry out the administration of justice in civil, criminal, and administrative matters in accordance with the rule of law. In both common law and civil law legal systems, courts are the central means for dispute resolution, and it is generally understood that all persons have an ability to bring their claims before a court. Similarly, the rights of those accused of a crime include the right to present a defense before a court.

The system of courts that interprets and applies the law is collectively known as the judiciary. The place where a court sits is known as a venue. The room where court proceedings occur is known as a courtroom, and the building as a courthouse; court facilities range from simple and very small facilities in rural communities to large buildings in cities.

The practical authority given to the court is known as its jurisdiction (Latin jus dicere) – the court's power to decide certain kinds of questions or petitions put to it. According to William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England, a court is constituted by a minimum of three parties: the actor or plaintiff, who complains of an injury done; the reus or defendant, who is called upon to make satisfaction for it, and the judex or judicial power, which is to examine the truth of the fact, to determine the law arising upon that fact, and, if any injury appears to have been done, to ascertain and by its officers to apply a legal remedy. It is also usual in the superior courts to have barristers, and attorneys or counsel, as assistants, though, often, courts consist of additional barristers, bailiffs, reporters, and perhaps a jury.

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More than $2.5m worth of assets restrained in tobacco case

RNZ 23 Dec 2024
With court proceedings still underway, the Police Asset Recovery Unit applied to the court and was granted restraint of the cash seized in the investigation along with further money from bank accounts, as well as four residential properties in Gisborne....
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Police restrain over $2.5m in assets after illicit tobacco operation busted

NewstalkZB 23 Dec 2024
“With court proceedings still under way, the Police Asset Recovery Unit applied to the court and was granted restraint of the cash seized in the investigation along with further money from bank accounts, as well as four residential properties in Gisborne.”....
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India child marriage crackdown reaches nearly 5,000 arrests

The News International 23 Dec 2024
Assam continues its fight against child marriage,” he added, saying raids have been carried out overnight and that those arrested would be produced in court on Sunday. India is home to more than 220 million child brides, according to the United Nations, but the number of child weddings has fallen dramatically this century....
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Sherrod Brown mulls 'post-Senate mission,' doesn't rule out future run for office in Ohio

The Columbus Dispatch 23 Dec 2024
Supreme Court Justice Jennifer Brunner ... Cincinnati Mayor Aftab Pureval said Brown was the first person to call and congratulate him for winning a low-stakes race for Hamilton County clerk of courts in 2016. United Auto Workers Local 14 president Tony Totty said Brown spoke out ......
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Inside the Trump team’s plans to try to end birthright citizenship

East Bay Times 22 Dec 2024
Washington (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump’s team is assessing multiple options to fulfill his long-promised pledge to end birthright citizenship, according to two sources familiar with the discussions, teeing up a legal fight with the expectation that the Supreme Court would ultimately have to rule on the matter....
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US Court of Appeals partially revives suit alleging improper FBI surveillance of Muslims

Jurist 22 Dec 2024
The case was heard on remand from the United States Supreme Court and decided on the findings of the District Court ... The Supreme Court remanded the case back to the Appeals Court on appeal ... To the second question, the Court held that the District Court’s application of United States v....
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Macomb County real estate transfers recorded July 29-Aug. 2, 2024

Macomb Daily 22 Dec 2024
11987 Timber Court $410,000 ... 47469 Michele Court $168,000 ... 51607 Valley View Court $516,800 ... 35270 Bristlecone Unit 28 $162,000 ... 43014 Ian Court $425,000 ... 43580 Noves Court $684,000 ... 37510 Jefferson Avenue Apt 104 Unit 3 $225,000 ... 49334 Flint Court $511,000 ... 52774 Hunters Pointe Court $317,000 ... 49139 Freedom Court Unit 4 $305,000 ... 26646 Dover Court $264,000....
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HIU resolves 99 murder Cases, arrests 229 suspects in 11 months

Urdu Point 22 Dec 2024
... and forwarded complete challans to the relevant courts.</p><p>DIG Syed Ali Raza assigned special tasks to the Homicide Unit, to resolve murder cases and provide justice to victims’ families....
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Regional News Roundup: Valley County commissioners consider land manag...

The Lewiston Tribune 22 Dec 2024
Valley County (Idaho) Commissioners on Monday discussed a Supreme Court case that aims to put states in charge of millions of acres of federal lands, sparking public outrage about the proposal ... United States, which argues the about 18.5 million acres of Bureau of Land Management land should be turned over to the state....
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Fergie and Zara paid hundreds of thousands by Hong Kong tycoon with link to China's ...

The Daily Mail 22 Dec 2024
Court papers reveal that British security authorities regard the CPPCC as ‘central’ to China’sunited front’ system, while the FBI has said it ‘enforces the rules and regulations’ of the Communist Party abroad ... But court papers released last week reveal that British security ......
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Jordan supports UN call for court's opinion on Israel's aid duties to Palestinians

The Jordan Times 22 Dec 2024
AMMAN — The Foreign Ministry on Friday welcomed the adoption of a United Nations General Assembly resolution that calls for an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) regarding Israel’s legal obligations in relation to UN activities and the actions of other ......
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Senate review of Supreme Court ethics finds more luxury trips and urges enforceable code of conduct

NBC Bay Area 22 Dec 2024
The court adopted its first code of ethics in 2023, but it leaves compliance to each of the nine justices ... Supreme Court to block a bipartisan-backed law that would ban the social media app in the United States if the company's Chinese-based owner, ByteDance, doesn't sell the platform to an American owner....
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Justice Thomas did not disclose additional trips, democrats say

West Hawaii Today 22 Dec 2024
... ethics practices at the Supreme Court ... In March 2023, the Judicial Conference of the United States, the policymaking body for the federal courts, adopted rules to clarify what counts as “personal hospitality” that judges need not reveal on judicial disclosure forms....

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