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high court

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high court
n.
See Supreme Court.
High Court
n
1. (Law)
a.  (in England and Wales) a shortened form of High Court of Justice
b.  (in Scotland) a shortened form of High Court of Justiciary
2. (Law) (in New Zealand) a court of law inferior to the Court of Appeal Formerly called Supreme Court
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Noun1.high court - the highest court in most states of the United States
state supreme court, supreme court
court, judicature, tribunal - an assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business
law, jurisprudence - the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"
Translations
high court n (Law) → Corte f Suprema
high court n (Law) → Corte f Suprema


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There was not only great wealth but high court interest among the connections of Edward Effingham.
The Pioneers by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context
Although these beasts were quite free, no one present was alarmed by them; for the Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger were well known and respected in the Emerald City and they always guarded the Ruler when she held high court in the Throne Room.
The Patchwork Girl of Oz by Baum, L. Frank View in context
& Fogg, two of his Majesty's attorneys of the courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas at Westminster, and solicitors of the High Court of Chancery--the aforesaid clerks catching as favourable glimpses of heaven's light and heaven's sun, in the course of their daily labours, as a man might hope to do, were he placed at the bottom of a reasonably deep well; and without the opportunity of perceiving the stars in the day-time, which the latter secluded situation affords.
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