noun
1. : the court formerly assembled for an English county that was presided over by the sheriff and attended by suitors who represented all the lands in the county or shire and were the doomsmen of the court and that had jurisdiction as a court of first instance in both civil and criminal cases and as a court of appeal from the minor courts and had also certain administrative and legislative powers
2. : any of various English judicial courts for civil actions established by the County Courts Act of 1846 mainly for the recovery of small debts
3. : a court having a designated jurisdiction usually both civil and criminal within the limits of a United States or British colonial county