| 单词 | court of first instance |
| 释义 | > as lemmascourt of first instance In this sense more fully defined as court of law, law-court, court of justice, court of judicature. These are distinguished as superior or inferior, according to their respective rank, the highest court of a country or state being called the Supreme Court. court of first instance: a court in which a matter must first be tried, as distinguished from a court of appeal, to which it may subsequently be carried. court of record: see quot. 17652.extracted from courtn.1court of first instance a. A process in a court of justice, a suit. court of first instance, court of primary jurisdiction. [Compare French tribunal de première instance.] ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > action of courts in claims or grievances > [noun] > a lawsuit speechc897 mootc1225 pleadingc1275 pleac1300 actiona1325 quarrela1325 suit1348 pursuit1380 sokena1387 process1395 plead1455 pleament1480 suit in law1530 ployc1600 suit in equity1604 suit in chancery1621 lawsuit1624 instance1654 legal action1656 lis1932 1654 J. Bramhall Just Vindic. Church of Eng. vii. 206 To seek for a remedy of these abuses at Rome, was such an insupportable charge, by reason of three instances and three sentences necessary to be obtained. 1681 Visct. Stair Form of Process 3 Processes are brought in before the Lords..some in the first instance, some in the second. 1684 G. Mackenzie Instit. Law Scotl. iv. iii If there has been a Debate in the first instance, (for so we call the action before the Decreet). 1692 Earl of Nottingham in 15th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1899) App. ii. 28 The Judges in the first instance are sometimes of the number of the Commissioners upon the Appeale. 1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 151 The Instance of a Cause is said to be that Judicial Process, which is made from the Contestation of a Suit, even to the Time of pronouncing Sentence in the Cause, or till the end of three years. 1860 Trench Serm. (1861) (Rev. ii. 3) 174 There lies an appeal to a tribunal of higher instance in Heaven. 1865 Spectator 25 Feb. 199 The loser is seldom satisfied with the decision of a Court of first instance. 1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. I. xxiii. 337 Any court, be it a State court of first instance, or the Federal court of last instance. < as lemmas |
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