world courtn.

1858 National Mag. (U.S.) 12 515/2 The scientific jury is not yet ready to pronounce its verdict; but the people of the world-court have heard in snatches the evidence.

1875 Spiritualism on Trial ii. 41 For if we, which form but a small part of this world-court, had seen it, we would not now, by this debate, be calling it in question.

1904 Atlantic Monthly 94 357/1 As our national courts have jurisdiction over issues involving parties other than the residents of one state, so the world-court would be a tribunal before which national differences could be tried.

1916 G. W. Nasmyth in G. H. Blakeslee Probl. & Lessons War xiii. 213 Must we not recognize that the most immediate interest of each of us individually is to aid in the establishment of a certain minimum of international machinery, such as the World Court, [etc.]?

1926 World's Work Sept. 491/2 When the Senate finally adopted its reservations to our joining the World Court, the State Department sent notice of our acceptance..to each of the forty-eight member nations of the Court.

1946 N.Y. Times 7 Feb. 8/2 (heading) 15 Judges elected for World Court.

1964 R. Gover Here goes Kitten 102 How can the world court, which some Leftists advocate America bow to, judge things fairly when it may be centuries before the common law of Ghana, for instance, approaches that of, say, Indiana!

1984 Times 10 Apr. 1/6 The Reagan Administration said yesterday it believed the World Court in The Hague did not have jurisdiction.

2005 Outlook (Canada) Nov. 14/2 Of the fourteen judges of the World Court, three from the U.S., France and Britain consistently voted against statements of the general illegality of nuclear weapons.