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Court

Either the room in which, and during which, judicial proceedings are hosted, or to the judicial body presiding over those proceedings, usually personified in the person of a judge.

Where justice is judicially administered.

May, in exceptional cases, be convened outdoors, usually for the purposes of assessing evidence not readily brought into an indoor courtroom.

Also, the judicial agencies, usually organized in hierarchy to accommodate appeals, tasked by constitutional law to receive evidence for the purpose of administering justice between opposing litigants, as part of the judicial branch of government, and as personified by individual judges who preside alone or in small groups over trials and other judicial hearings.

Traditionally, neither the venue nor the officers presiding over arbitration or administrative tribunals are not called court or courts, the name reserved for the general courts of common law or statutory jurisdisdiction.

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Unless otherwise noted, this article was written by Lloyd Duhaime, Barrister, Solicitor, Attorney and Lawyer (and Notary Public!). It is not intended to be legal advice and you would be foolhardy to rely on it in respect to any specific situation you or an acquaintance may be facing. In addition, the law changes rapidly and sometimes with little notice so from time to time, an article may not be up to date. Therefore, this is merely legal information designed to educate the reader. If you have a real situation, this information will serve as a good springboard to get legal advice from a lawyer.

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