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police court
A court of summary jurisdiction for the trial or investigation of charges preferred by the police. (At first called police office.) Also attrib.
1823Stark Picture of Edinb. (ed. 3) 152 An application was made to Parliament, in 1805, for a police bill for the city..and a police court [was] opened in Edinburgh, on 15 July 1805..under the superintendence of a Judge of Police. 1839Act 2 & 3 Vict. c. 71 §1 The several police courts now established under the names of the public office in Bow Street and the police offices in the parishes of..[seven named]..shall be continued. 1882W. Ballantine Exper. ii. 24 Police-courts were called offices [in the early part of this century]. 1898Westm. Gaz. 29 Oct. 2/3 So far the latter have escaped police-court proceedings. 1930D. H. Lawrence Nettles 19 And Mr. Mead..said: ‘Gross! coarse! hideous!’—and I, like a silly Thought he meant the faces of the police-court officials. 1964[see form n. 16 c]. 1965[see magistrate n. 3]. 1979S. Weintraub London Yankees iv. 113 English readers discovered Frederic in the newspaper transcripts from Croydon Police Court in 1898. |