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county court

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county court
n
(Law) (in England) a local court exercising limited jurisdiction in civil matters
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There was the Vicar of Whitestone, a parish a little way from Blackstable: he was a bachelor and to give himself something to do had lately taken up farming: the local paper constantly reported the cases he had in the county court against this one and that, labourers he would not pay their wages to or tradesmen whom he accused of cheating him; scandal said he starved his cows, and there was much talk about some general action which should be taken against him.
Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
The chief citizen was York Leicester Driscoll, about forty years old, judge of the county court.
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