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The Meaning of Court

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 10, 1900

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 77, No. 15.

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The Meaning of Court

IN connection with the establishment of that “American court,” with its necessary appurtenances of “court dress” and a “court chamber,” it is well to bear in mind the definition of the word “court” in this sense. It is, “The place where a sovereign holds state, surrounded by his official attendants and tokens of his dignity; as, to be presented at court. Also, specifically, it is “the collective body of persons who compose the retinue or council of a sovereign or other princely dignity.”