|
|
Definition of Tribunal
1. Noun. An assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business.
Specialized synonyms: Court, Court Of Justice, Court Of Law, Lawcourt, International Court Of Justice, World Court, Appeals Court, Appellate Court, Court Of Appeals, Assizes, Court Of Assize, Court Of Assize And Nisi Prius, Chancery, Court Of Chancery, Consistory, Criminal Court, Divorce Court, Court Of Domestic Relations, Domestic Relations Court, Family Court, Federal Court, F.i.s.c., Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, Inferior Court, Lower Court, Inquisition, Juvenile Court, Kangaroo Court, Military Court, Moot Court, Police Court, Probate Court, Quarter Sessions, Rota, Star Chamber, Superior Court, High Court, State Supreme Court, Supreme Court, Traffic Court, Trial Court
Generic synonyms: Assembly
Terms within: Bench
Member holonyms: Jury
Definition of Tribunal
1. n. The seat of a judge; the bench on which a judge and his associates sit for administering justice.
2. n. In villages of the Philippine Islands, a kind of townhall. At the tribunal the head men of the village met to transact business, prisoners were confined, and troops and travelers were often quartered.
Definition of Tribunal
1. Noun. An assembly including one or more judges to conduct judicial business; a court of law. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tribunal
1. a court of justice [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tribunal
Literary usage of Tribunal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"(d) Each Mixed Arbitral tribunal will settle its own procedure except in so far
as it is provided in the following Annex, and is empowered to award the sums ..."
2. International Law: A Treatise by Lassa Oppenheim (1920)
"The Court thus constituted has jurisdiction over all cases of arbitration, unless
there shall be an agreement between the parties for a special tribunal of ..."
3. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1920)
"But where there is a contest like this which must be decided, and in which the
only tribunal provided by law for its trial and determination is interested, ..."
4. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1910)
"Comme dans les autres matières, on pouvait recourir au tribunal de cassation,
pour faire annuler le judgement rendu par le tribunal d'appel. ..."
5. Under Orders: War Crimes in Kosovo by Fred Abrahams (2001)
"Twenty people had been convicted and two had been acquitted.2 The tribunal's
first public reference to Kosovo was on March 10, 1998, just after the Serbian ..."
6. International Arbitration. International Tribunals: A Collection of the by William Evans Darby (1900)
"It is, in some respects, the most important ; for it is considered the international
desideratum of the age that there should be a tribunal for the ..."
Other Resources:
