palace courtn.
/ˈpalᵻs ˌkɔːt/, U.S. /ˈpæləs ˌkɔrt/ (in sense 2)Brit. /ˌpalᵻs ˈkɔːt/, U.S. /ˌpæləs ˈkɔrt/ 1. A courtyard of a palace.
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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
a1679 Earl of Orrery Herod (1694) iii. 23 As through the Palace Court I past, I saw the Guards run to their Arms in hast.
1722 A. Philips Briton ii. iv. 16 It is the Prince! Now, in the Palace-Court, the Chariot sounds.
1801 R. Southey Thalaba II. viii. 135 Open fly the iron doors The doors of the palace court.
1892 Dict. National Biogr. XXXIII. 310/2 On the night of the murder he accompanied Morton to the palace court with a band of armed followers.
1933 Greece & Rome 3 5 A dreadful crash announces the fall of the pillars in the palace-court.
1998 Azerbaijan Internat. (Nexis) 6 46 They took detailed measurements for the reconstruction of the burial vault..and the palace court.
2. Usually in form Palace Court. A court having jurisdiction in personal actions arising within twelve miles of the palace of Whitehall, with the exception of actions arising in the City of London or within the jurisdiction of the Court of the Marshalsea or the courts at Westminster. Now historical.The Palace Court was established by letters patent by James I (new letters patent were granted in 1631 and 1665). It was abolished under the provisions of the County Courts Act, 1849.
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society > law > administration of justice > judicial body, assembly, or court > [noun] > courts with other specific jurisdictions
marshalseaa1400
oyer and terminer1469
High Commission1581
jail-delivery1612
Court of (the) Verge1647
palace court1685
Court of Claims1691
Industrial Court1852
brewster sessions1883
traffic court1896
family court1917
1685 Termes de la Ley 525 Palace-Court, is a Court of Record,..held at Southwark, and is a Court of Common Law.
1766 J. Entick Surv. London in New Hist. London IV. 385 Here, in the same prison, is the Palace Court.
1773 Salkeld's Rep. Cases King's Bench (ed. 5) 2 sig. 3Y2v This must have been to the Palace Court, where neither Plaintiff nor Defendant must be of the King's Household.
1827 W. Buckley (title) The jurisdiction and practice of the Marshalsea & Palace Courts, with tables of costs and charges, etc.
1891 Dict. National Biogr. XXVI. 371/1 Thackeray's ballad on ‘Jacob Omnium's Hoss’ commemorates his friend's assault upon the Palace Court, which was abolished in consequence.
1966 A. L. Goodhart & H. G. Hanbury Holdsworth's Hist. Eng. Law XVI. 65 [Lord Chelmsford] was called to the bar in 1818, soon got a practice at the Surrey Sessions and in the Palace Court, where he bought a place as one of the four counsel who were allowed to practise there.
1996 Hist. Jrnl. 39 712 The records of London's Palace Court..detail numerous cases in which judges and juries upheld a wife's right to pledge the credit of a husband from whom she had chosen to separate.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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