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justice's court
noun
an inferior tribunal, not of record, having limited jurisdiction, both civil and criminal, and presided over by a justice of the peace.
51³Ō¹Ļ History and Origins
Origin of justice's court1
Example Sentences
Goodsonās attorney said the justiceās court fight āput sunshineā on spending by outside groups.
The head of the Novosibirsk diocese, who had not seen the opera, claimed in a letter to the local prosecutorās office that the production violated laws against offending the feelings of religious believers and inciting religious discord, but a justiceās court in Novosibirsk found nothing wrong with the production.
So the ball is now firmly in the Ministry of Justice's court.
He is no lawyer, could not try a case properly even in a Justice's court and has no character.
What was, from one point of view, a matter of as much importance, my business began to drop off; men who had placed their legal affairs in my hands no longer sought me for advice and only an occasional petty case in some justice's court came to afford me a livelihood.
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