单词 | base court |
释义 | base courtn. Now historical. 1. Architecture. The lower or outer court of a castle or mansion, occupied by the servants. Also: a court at the back of an early farmhouse, containing the outbuildings. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > courtyard > [noun] court1377 closec1440 quadrant1443 pryelle1480 base court1490 palace1506 quadranglec1543 courtyard1552 palace courta1679 quad1786 under-ward1826 tetrastoön1838 courtlet1844 riad1881 lapa1886 patio1931 1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) iii. 98 Reynawde..sawe that the basse-courte of the castell brenned. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. f. ccxxxviii/1 Ther were dyuers slayne and hurt, and ye base court wonne and brent. 1579 T. Churchyard Gen. Rehearsall Warres sig. Hiijv Thei laye vnder the rampire of the Base courte, and slue sondrie of our soldiours. 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique i. xi. 51 [The farmer's wife] is tied to matters within the house and base court. 1670 C. Cotton tr. G. Girard Hist. Life Duke of Espernon ii. vi. 287 There also crowded as many more young Souldiers of the Regiment of Guards into the Palace; insomuch that all the Base-Court, Galleries, and the very Hall it self was full of them. 1726 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey V. xxii. 492 Once more the palace set in fair array, To the base court the females take their way; There compass'd close between the dome and wall,..they trembling wait their fall. 1759 B. Martin Nat. Hist. Eng. I. 212 Bass-Courts for Officers and Servants. 1821 W. Scott Kenilworth II. xiii. 330 The large base-court, or outer yard, of the noble Castle. 1868 G. A. Lawrence Brakespeare v. 16/1 He had been disturbed by a great outcry, and by the baying of the..bitch chained in the base-court below. 1904 Eng. Hist. Rev. 19 448 Though the base court of the Old Baile is now built over, its area and ditches were visible in Leland's time. 1979 M. W. Beresford & J. K. S. St. Joseph Medieval Eng. (ed. 2) ii. iv. 58 Only two arches, set like gigantic croquet hoops, remain from the base court of the Elizabethan house. 2001 J. Feather Widow's Kiss (2002) xiv. 215 Trumpets sounded from all four corners of the base court. 2. Law. An inferior court of justice; a court (such as a court baron) that is not a court of record. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > judicial body, assembly, or court > [noun] > inferior court base courtc1523 lower court1577 court paravaila1653 c1523 J. Rastell Expos. Terminorum Legum Anglorum sig. F.3v/2 Procedendo is a writ & it lyeth wher any accion is sewed in a base court which is remouyd to a hye court. 1542–3 Act. 34 & 35 Hen. VIII xxvii. §82 The returne of a write of false iudgement, out of a base court, before the sayde Iustices. a1616 C. Calthrope Relation Lord of Mannor & Coppy-holder (1635) 70 If thirteene Coppy-holders bee sworne in a base Court, and twelve agree to give Verdict, the thirteenth will not; it is not a forfeiture, for it is a good verdict without his assent. 1659 H. Applegarth tr. W. Glisson & A. Gulston Surv. Law 204 The defendant shall not wage his law because the court compel him to be atturney for the party, otherwaies if it be upon suit in a base court. 1753 G. Wilson Pract. Treat. Fines & Recoveries 35 By special Grant Fines may be levied in a base Court. a1797 E. Burke Ess. Abridgm. Eng. Hist. (rev. ed.) in Wks. (1812) V. 636 The original manner of granting feudal property, and something like it is still practised in our base-courts. 1841 T. H. Gill Fortunes of Faith ii. 38 Brave a base court and brand a guilty queen. 1895 A. M. White Outl. Legal Hist. i. 2 Base courts..were not courts of record, and their jurisdiction used to be limited to forty shillings. 1919 W. L. Williams Making of Mod. Wales ii. 78 The Hundred Courts were thronged with suitors, whereas the County Courts—which were far and away the best of the ‘base courts’ (i.e. courts not of record)—were deserted. 1945 Columbia Law Rev. 45 496 The edition of 1659..has a brief statement dealing with the writ as a means of removing a case out of a base court to the King's Bench. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1490 |
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