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Lower court   /lˈoʊər kɔrt/   Listen
Lower court

noun
1.
Any court whose decisions can be appealed to a higher court.  Synonym: inferior court.






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"Lower court" Quotes from Famous Books



... Supreme Court, consisting of five magistrates including the president; lower court judges appointed for three-year terms by ...
— The 1998 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... was at one time in a high court on the assumption that the "van" in Beethoven's name indicated nobility. The widow contested this, and brought action requesting that the case be tried in a lower court. When Beethoven was examined on this issue, he pointed to his head and heart, saying, "my nobility is here and here." "van" is not a sign of nobility like the German "von," and the case was sent ...
— Beethoven • George Alexander Fischer

... the lower court was affirmed. The decision, in which the five judges concurred, was founded almost exclusively upon the affirmation that "that which is expressed makes that which is silent cease." This decision reversed absolutely the one rendered ...
— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV • Various



Words linked to "Lower court" :   court, tribunal, judicature



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