| 单词 | court of first resort |
| 释义 | > as lemmascourt of first resort court of first resort n. a court or tribunal to which appeal is initially made. ΚΠ 1727 C. Tancred Ess. for Gen. Regulation of Law xv. 106 'Tis more expedient that such a Matter shou'd be..sent back to the Court of first Resort. 1835 London Lit. Gaz. 25 Apr. 267/1 The number of civil causes annually tried before the courts of first resort..is..24,000. 1863 H. Cox Inst. Eng. Govt. ii. ii. 308 Parliaments relinquished much of their wonted authority as a court of first resort. 1900 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 15 150 The Magistrat appealed to the Bezirksausschuss, which is the administrative court of first resort in such cases. 1945 H. A. Millis & R. E. Montgomery Organized Labor iii. 138 The War Labor Board should act..as well as a court of first resort in cases involving war production. 1998 G. A. Kennedy Compr. Rhetoric vi. 119 In the Babylonian period..the court of first resort was the local council of elders. < as lemmas |
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