I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a case comes before a judge/court
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The case came before the federal courts.
a case comes/goes to court
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When the case finally came to court, they were found not guilty.
a court case
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There was a lot of publicity surrounding the court case.
a court order (= when a judge in a court says you must do something )
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Now they’re faced with a court order that could force them to leave.
a courting couple old-fashioned (= having a romantic relationship, often planning to get married later )
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The path by the river is a popular area for courting couples.
a criminal court
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The trial will take place in an international criminal court.
a divorce lawyer/court (= one dealing with divorce )
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She's a famous New York divorce lawyer.
Appeal Court
appeals court
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a ruling by a US federal appeals court
appear before a court/judge/committee etc
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She appeared before Colchester magistrates charged with attempted murder.
appear in court
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The three men are due to appear in court tomorrow.
appellate court
circuit court
common-law rules/courts/rights etc
coroner’s court
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the coroner’s court
county court
court action
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The couple are still considering whether to take court action.
court card
court correspondent
court costs
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You could be ordered to pay court costs.
Court of Appeal
Court of Appeals
court of inquiry
court of law
court order
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His computer was seized under a court order.
court popularity (= try to be popular by pleasing people )
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It is tempting for politicians to court popularity.
court reporter
court shoe
Crown Court
district court
federal judge/high court judge etc (= a judge in a particular court )
food court
grass court
hard court
High Court
in open court (= in a court where everything is public )
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The case will be tried in open court .
kangaroo court
law court
Magistrates' Court
moot court
settle out of court (= come to an agreement without going to a court of law )
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She talked to a lawyer and settled out of court with her former employer.
sheriff court
small claims court
stand up in court (= be successfully proved in a court of law )
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Without a witness, the charges will never stand up in court .
state court
Supreme Court
tennis court
the appeal court British English , the appeals court American English
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The ruling was reversed in the appeal court.
the Court of Appeal
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The Court of Appeal quashed the conviction.
the trial court
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The evidence will be fully tested in the trial court.
traffic court
ward of court
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She was made a ward of court .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
appellate
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The forthcoming appeal against conviction of Lord Hardwicke will therefore provide an opportunity for the appellate courts to reconsider the position.
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Last May, an appellate court allowed the city to seize two buildings.
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The appellate court may then make the order if it thinks fit.
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The appellate court , the department said Friday, was wrong.
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Other documents must be filed and served as soon as practicable, subject to any direction of the appellate court .
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Earlier this year federal appellate courts struck down the New York and Washington laws.
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If upheld in appellate court the case could form an important precedent in family law.
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Too often a trial becomes a contest between the trial judge and the appellate court , and justice is forgotten.
civil
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Figure 1.1 represents the civil court structure and Figure 1.2 represents the criminal court structure.
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The lawsuits seek not only to stop sales of the product but also civil penalties, court costs and refunds for buyers.
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Ignored was the consideration that interrogators of prisoners do not come forward as witnesses against themselves before police boards or civil courts .
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For the moment, these religious courts work in tandem with Soviet-style civil courts.
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Relevant well-established civil court case law is based on the general provisions of the Civil Code relating to the conclusion of contracts.
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The Woldemariams have a wrongful death case against Broadus and Lee pending in civil court .
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He said the country's criminal and civil courts were creaking at the seams in spite of efforts to shore them up.
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Martial law can not operate where civil courts are open. 20.
criminal
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The Council also had powers as a criminal court in matters arising out of its administrative duties.
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I organized political protests, but also got two appointments from federal criminal courts .
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Figure 1.1 represents the civil court structure and Figure 1.2 represents the criminal court structure.
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Since then, Pepper has focused his efforts on gaining a trial in criminal court .
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Here are some of the most recent criminal court cases.
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The answer is that a few big city criminal courts did become clogged with drug cases in the seventies and eighties.
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The victim does not have a special place in the criminal court .
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A criminal court which admitted such a defence would never hear the end of it.
federal
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A federal court has ordered that this must be done by June 1st; voters have already turned down one plan.
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Burroughs filed a patent infringement suit in a North Carolina federal court .
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A federal appeals court has lifted the injunction, allowing for extraditions until the constitutionality of the statute is decided next year.
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A federal appeals court upheld the ban, approved by California voters in 1996.
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In a New York case, a federal district court found that a nonprofit educational service agency was guilty of copyright violations.
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In fact, a federal bankruptcy court in 1994 refused to allow asbestos claims to go forward against Jim Walter.
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He was to be arraigned in federal court in San Francisco in the afternoon.
high
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The House of Lords may be the highest court in the land, but it hears comparatively few appeals each year.
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The high court will hear arguments in the case later this year.
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By 1994 or so, solicitors in independent practice will have rights of audience in the higher courts .
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The dispute reached the high court in two similar cases that produced opposite results.
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Probation officers may also become part of the process as may legal representatives, judges, juries and the higher courts .
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They judged only minor cases; more serious matters were referred to the higher courts .
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An appeal against his conviction for possessing cannabis was quashed, after a High court ruled there was no evidence against him.
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The high court did not release information about which justices were on either side of the vote.
low
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The case received wide publicity when a habeascorpus petition was upheld by two lower courts .
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The immigration case was not one of them, so the lower court ruling stands.
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A lower court has already dismissed their cases.
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A lower federal court ruled that, irrespective of the circumstances, such disciplinary action is never permitted without a prior hearing.
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For such cases the Report argues that legal aid should be available as in the lower courts .
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The decision is mischievous at best and will surely confuse the lower courts .
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Circuit in Atlanta unanimously dismissed great-uncle Lazaro Gonzalez's appeal of a lower court ruling earlier this year.
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Overturning a lower court , the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals said the trial should go forward.
open
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It's a question that lawyers representing the two Hitachi employees wanted to pursue in open court .
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Of the prospective jurors questioned, only six were dismissed in open court .
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This requirement is appropriate in a Public Order Act, and resolves the point left open by the court in Ambrose.
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He also has sealed transcripts of the entire jury selection process, even the sessions held in open court .
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The hearing was in chambers and judgment was delivered in open court .
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He was interviewed by Judge Patrick King in his chambers, but did not testify in open court .
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The summons was heard in chambers but judgment was given in open court at the request of the parties.
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I am giving this judgment in open court at the request of all parties.
royal
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Until well into the sixteenth century the royal court and its functionaries were peripatetic.
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That he might elevate her into the imaginary ranks of some royal court of whiteness.
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Numerous conflicts within the kingdom were thus centred upon the royal court .
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There were court musicians whose exact relation to the family or to any royal court was predictably fuzzy.
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This was the moment when the Deiran royal court was destroyed.
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They had influence in the imperial and royal courts: they were the pope's permanent delegates.
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Most of their business was transacted in the royal court , whose physical setting dictated the rituals of supplication and patronage.
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Indeed it is more than likely that Desiderius was encouraged in his actions by the royal court .
supreme
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Gen Musharraf has promised to keep to a supreme court ruling that requires him to hold general elections by October 2002.
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I could flip through a fifty-page state supreme court decision on deadline and call in a story from a pay phone.
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The farmers are carrying on the work in defiance both of cantonal regulations and a supreme court injunction ordering them to stop.
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The state supreme court advised the governor that the law violated the First Amendment rights of teachers.
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The supreme court of Florida is welcome to them.
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The most important of these moves was the appeal to the supreme court , which is unlikely to rule before next week.
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The supreme court president, Hernan Alvarez, has yet to make public the court's decision.
■ NOUN
action
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The Financial Statement was a voluntary arrangement, which aimed to avoid court action .
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The court action continues Burroughs' exclusive hold on the drug through at least 2005.
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Repeated court action to evict the protesters has failed: they refuse to give their names and origins.
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It was placed on hold because of the court action .
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It would take another protracted court action and many years of protest before the Front finally wound down.
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The Independent Television Commission threatened court action if it was not restored to its original time.
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She is now thought to have picked up £250,000 in court actions around the world.
appeal
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Its contribution is particular rather than general, and some have questioned whether there is a need for two levels of appeal court .
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If the appeals courts reverse the case, the whole procedure begins all over again.
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The appeal court , overturning this conviction, found him guilty only on what was described as the lesser charge of genocide.
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A federal appeals court ruled in James's favor.
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Fawehinmi's conviction on the contempt of court charge was quashed by the appeal court in July.
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Because of that conclusion, the appeals court did not address whether the association's recruiting rule violated the First Amendment.
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The appeal court granted permission last December for those points to be argued on appeal.
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Then, last Friday, a federal appeals court lifted the ban on blocking e-mail.
case
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The incident leading to the court case had been sparked by a beer bottle being thrown at him the previous night.
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Ten years before that, Gray won a federal court case that held blacks could not systematically be excluded from juries.
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Officials often complained that the victim of cattle theft preferred paying the ransom to instituting a court case .
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The risks of a court case also have to be in the forefront of your mind.
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When this was the case , the owner had no option but to accept his loss or institute a court case.
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The large number of court cases in which the complainant dropped the prosecution is an indication that many cases were settled informally.
county
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There are different forms of the request available from the county court depending upon the nature of the action.
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Water control was administered by highly autonomous irrigation districts which were under the legal jurisdiction of the county courts .
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The assistant recorder, sitting in the county court , refused leave to introduce the counterclaim and made an order for possession.
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Conciliation facilities are available in the county courts where you go for the divorce.
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The procedure before the county court is of course swifter and cheaper than an application before this court.
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Two county court judgments against his company ordered him to paya total of nearly £ 13,500.
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There seems no good reason why the same should not apply before county court proceedings are brought.
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For county court purposes interest should be claimed pursuant to s 69 of the County Courts Act, 1984.
crown
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A CROWN court judge is considering recommending the deportation of a man convicted of deception.
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James Forster, 68, of Manfield, near Darlington, was convicted of seven offences at Teesside crown court .
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We were on remand for about three months and then we were up at the Crown court .
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I was terrified Voice over Nottingham Crown court heard medical evidence showed Fisher took no sadistic pleasure in violent attacks on women.
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The only appeal is to a crown court judge.
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All three elected crown court trial and the cases were adjourned by Liverpool magistrates until June 24.
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The case continues at the city's crown court .
decision
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By law, political parties could be banned only by a court decision , which had not been received.
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Blacks knew that every peaceful march and favorable court decision was being answered with acts of officially sanctioned violence.
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Indeed, for the majority of these propositions there is no authority in the sense of legislation or court decision .
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Two subsequent court decisions reiterated the Court of Appeals' ruling.
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Bates' attorney, Joseph Remcho, said he was confident the prior court decisions would stand.
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The court decision prohibits the destruction of books and records, and freezes the defendants' assets.
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Recent court decisions have ruled that using all-white models in real estate ads sends a discriminatory message to other races.
district
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To put these contentions into effect the applicant made two applications in the district court to which the cases had been transferred.
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The Supreme Court agreed with the district court that the Texas abortion statutes violated her right of privacy.
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In Co Longford a district court judge urged local nightclubs to close for a week.
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The district court upheld the plan but was reversed by the court of appeals.
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In addition, district courts were given the power to imprison these men for up to four years.
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The district court recognized that the Alabama statute violated the establishment clause as construed by the Supreme Court.
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All Supreme Court cases and selected district court cases were prosecuted by a government official.
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And so, Your Honor, if you bind my client over for trial to the district court , I will understand.
judge
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High court judge Arifin Jaka said it was only a detail.
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The Pikes appealed to a juvenile court judge , who ruled in their favor.
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The only appeal is to a crown court judge .
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Rather than increasing the sentence, three appeal court judges substituted a three-year probation order requiring him to undergo treatment or counselling.
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In Co Longford a district court judge urged local nightclubs to close for a week.
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Three appeal court judges reserved judgment.
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Therefore he held that the court had no jurisdiction to review the decision of the county court judge for error of law.
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Last month three Court of Appeal court judges refused to overturn the libel jury's verdict.
law
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The law courts are venal and can take decades to decide a case.
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Demonstrators taking part in a sit-in in front of the law courts were beaten up by police.
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The law courts are also having a field day.
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It was in this period too that a club's control over a player was first challenged in the law courts .
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People preferred the more formalized and anonymous procedures of the law courts .
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It has law courts , government offices and a university.
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After successive delays, aided by the law courts , the new deadline for payment is Thursday.
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The law courts , with their outside staircase, are also impressive.
order
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In granting the county court order , Judge Geoffrey Vos said the families' affidavits showed they feared for their children.
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She said he had not complied with a court order , issued in late 1993, to pay her.
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Creditors have applied for a court order to take over and sell the building.
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A court order would simply bar the attorneys from releasing the transcripts.
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The area named in the court order has been used by gypsies but is earmarked for a new £125m business park.
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The school board, stymied, asked the federal court for an exemption from contempt proceedings for not executing the court order .
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In 1983, Mrs Victoria Gillick sought a court order to rule the latter order of priorities illegal.
state
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A few months later, a state court sentenced Heber to four additional years.
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The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in state court in Houston, seeks unspecified damages.
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There is no previous Supreme Court ruling on this subject, although state courts have made conflicting judgments since the 1970s.
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The appeal would have to be filed within a year of exhausting state court appeals.
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Medtronic Inc. v. Lohr: Federal law does not prevent patients from suing manufacturers of defective medical devices in state courts .
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The federal court system already offers no discretionary challenges to potential jurors, and state courts could follow suit.
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Most capital cases are handled by state courts .
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The railroad brought suit in state court on interstate-commerce grounds and won.
tennis
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For the more energetic, tennis courts and a golf course are available nearby.
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There are also tennis courts , a bowling green and an air-conditioned gymnasium with a regulation-sized basketball court.
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Sports facilities include a swimming pool and 4 tennis courts .
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It boasts a hot tub, tennis court , heated pool and several smashing views of the Potomac.
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The area round the school houses the library, tennis courts , a children's play area, and a bowling green.
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There are tennis courts , and golf is available nearby.
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The horses were there, and tennis courts and a croquet ground where competition was fierce.
■ VERB
appear
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Four people had appeared in court on Monday on the same charge.
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Hall said, but an arrest warrant was issued after Hall failed to appear in court on the charge.
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Other men will appear in court this month.
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Biehl and Green are scheduled to appear in court Feb. 22.
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Daniel Omara Atubu was reportedly badly beaten after his arrest and showed physical signs of ill-treatment when he appeared in court .
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He's expected to be charged shortly and will appear in court tomorrow.
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Read in studio A man has appeared in court accused of attacking a woman in a graveyard.
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Meanwhile scores of rebel sup porters appeared in court as prosecutors pressed the first charges stemming from the coup attempt.
apply
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Shariia is strictly applied by religious courts , and even the punishments for violations of the law are specified in the Koran.
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Similar considerations apply in the county court which also has the power to award costs.
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The child may apply to the court for his solicitor's appointment to be terminated.
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To start that procedure, the authority applies to a magistrates court for a summons.
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The formal rules of evidence that apply in courts do not apply in tribunals.
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Liberty to apply to county court .
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There seems no good reason why the same should not apply before county court proceedings are brought.
bring
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Thirteen others arrested during the ferment are being brought before the courts in two batches.
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The railroad brought suit in state court on interstate-commerce grounds and won.
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A debtor who did that and swore that his all amounted to less than £5 would be brought before a court .
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If violations can not be satisfactorily resolved, the U. S. Department of Labor may bring action in court to compel compliance.
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His solicitors were only told at 9am he was being brought back to court .
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It brought before the courts novel questions of the appropriate limits of congressional inquiry.
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What brings you here to court so hastily?
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Assistance is only available to those who are able to bring relevant proceedings to court in their own right.
hear
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Ninety-eight percent of all criminal cases are heard in the latter courts .
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A suit filed by Don King to clear the way for the Tyson-Bruno fight will be heard in federal court .
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The settlement, which concluded four months of negotiations, obviated the need for the separate cases to be heard in court .
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He plays defense, a word Iverson has only heard in court .
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Most criminal cases are heard by magistrates' courts .
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Shoppers were surprised to hear about today's court case.
hold
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He had held his Christmas court at Talmont, north of La Rochelle, and distributed gifts on a lavish scale.
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Leffingwell even held probate court there.
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She caused a few titters when she said she'd held the court in the church for the convenience of all parties.
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Instead, he could hold court for his many buyers in his studio garage.
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He then returned to hold his Christmas court at Saintes.
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While neither team can truly hold home court advantage here, each actually has its own floor surface.
settle
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Preston says the tribe is looking at a precedent set in a similar incident litigated and settled out of court .
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Others have been settled out of court .
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In frustration, she talked to a lawyer and settled out of court with her former employer.
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The two sides announced that they had settled out of court .
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The suit was settled out of court .
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Kildare, £600 to settle out of court .
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Riney countersued her for slander, and the two settled out of court .
tell
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Mr Rawley told the court that he had received full details of the scientific tests carried out by the Ministry that morning.
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The seventh of nine children, Wiedman told court officials he, too, was molested as a child.
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He told the court that as Newton pulled away, he kicked out while they were still on the ground.
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Prosecuting lawyer Tessa Kitson told the court of several more incidents in which attempts were made to cash stolen cheques.
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Adams told the court he had been out drinking but had no more than three pints.
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Two of the accused nurses told the court they were forced to confess to an international conspiracy under torture.
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She had been expecting a lift which failed to materialise, defending solicitor Mark Blundell told the court .
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She also told the court that he'd heard he'd threatened to blow his head off.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be laughed out of court
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It happens in part because our youthful efforts to cooperate in the realization of myth / truth are laughed out of court.
bring charges/a lawsuit/a court case/a prosecution/a claim (against sb)
drag sb through the courts
hold court
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Artists who have arrived at that position are expected to sit still and hold court.
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Baseball raconteur Bill Rigney is holding court at a window table.
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For hour after hour, without a break, clearly relishing the attention, Kevorkian holds court.
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I am holding court, lady of the mansion.
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In one corner, the Grand Duchess held court; in another, her husband, as befitted the challenger.
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Instead, he could hold court for his many buyers in his studio garage.
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Ken Bradshaw was holding court among a handful of Waimea veterans.
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Somewhere in the smoky crowd the authoress and photographer, Jill Freedman from New York, was holding court.
land sb in trouble/hospital/court etc
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Being too aggressive can land you in trouble - and still not get you paid.
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But that would land Dolly in trouble.
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In fact, it's the very program that landed Microsoft in court.
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It doesn't have to land you in trouble.
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Might we not show these photographs to the government and land the people in trouble?
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The attendant filed criminal charges against the princess, landing her in court two days after she landed at Logan.
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There was no harm in that but it landed him in trouble every time.
opera/court/movie etc house
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A belligerent crowd of some fifty thousand gathered around the court house .
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Not only was the curtain rung down but the opera house was dismantled.
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She prefers her recordings made live in the opera house and regards herself totally as a woman of the theatre.
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The Court House , where the business was conducted, can still be seen today.
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Then he opened a movie house and said he was definitely done with pro basketball.
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There are two public houses , a butcher's shop, a chapel, and a court house.
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They grew wealthy overnight and had a beautiful little opera house built in the midst of their shacks on the steep slope.
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They polished up the opera house , and every summer stars from the Metropolitan came out and performed.
pay court (to sb)
the ball is in sb's court
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But the ball is in our court.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A group of photographers and reporters gathered outside the court .
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a volleyball court
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Benton appeared in court yesterday on three charges of assault.
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She says she will go to court to try to prove that she was unfairly dismissed from her job.
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The courts are floodlit at night so that you can play all the year round.
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The new leisure complex has a sauna, jacuzzi, swimming pool and tennis courts.
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the United States Supreme Court
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There was a large crowd of reporters gathered outside the court .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After the hearing, as the vans taking the boys from the court emerged the crowd exploded with anger.
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And yet another plot twist was aired in court Wednesday.
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Even physical access to a court hearing was not guaranteed.
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He had been present in court when sentence was passed and the fact of his contempt was never in issue.
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Now the company was in the soup, and its attorneys promptly removed the case to the federal court .
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The court heard Edmunds initially took 10 percent of the earnings but with nothing for the Sunsets.
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The courts ought, therefore, simply to decline jurisdiction in such matters.
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The next step is for the lessor to make a court application to obtain an order for possession.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
case
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Groups with a grievance could take their cases to court .
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As a result of this incident, Mailloux was dismissed and took his case to court .
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The firms that will be most affected will be those which have a high number of cases going to court .
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As a result, the school penalized the student publishers, and they took their case to court .
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Ramdoo was suspended from duty, the home was placed under independent control and the case progressed slowly to court .
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Federal law forbids a union member from taking his own case to court .
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When the case gets to court , it may turn out that Mrs Dennis was not alone in receiving unwelcome attention.
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The Brady case may provide court conservatives another chance to limit the power of the federal government in state and local affairs.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
opera/court/movie etc house
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A belligerent crowd of some fifty thousand gathered around the court house .
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Not only was the curtain rung down but the opera house was dismantled.
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She prefers her recordings made live in the opera house and regards herself totally as a woman of the theatre.
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The Court House , where the business was conducted, can still be seen today.
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Then he opened a movie house and said he was definitely done with pro basketball.
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There are two public houses , a butcher's shop, a chapel, and a court house.
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They grew wealthy overnight and had a beautiful little opera house built in the midst of their shacks on the steep slope.
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They polished up the opera house , and every summer stars from the Metropolitan came out and performed.
the ball is in sb's court
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But the ball is in our court.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Politicians are courting voters before the elections.
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She finally married a gentleman who had been courting her for years.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But ingratiation is not just about courting popularity.
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He is accompanied by Nicholas Frere, who has been courting his sister and whose intrepid, free-spirited demeanour he envies.
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In the latter, parishioners staked out positions and courted support as though an election loomed.
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Of how he had met, courted, wed Constance.
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The whole trade courts psychological flaws.