| 单词 | outer house |
| 释义 | > as lemmasOuter House Outer House n. Scots Law (in full Outer House of the Court of Session) a court of first instance at which judges of the Court of Session sit singly (see quot. 1872). ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > judicial body, assembly, or court > place where court is held > [noun] > courthouse > specifically in Scotland Outer House1708 1708 J. Chamberlayne Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (1710) ii. 418 The Ordinary is to make a Report of their Interloquitor, which he Reports in the Outer House the next day ordinarily, or at the side Bar the next Week. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian xi, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 317 This case of Marsport against Lackland has made an unco din in the Outer-house. 1872 Wharton's Law Lexicon (ed. 5) Outer House, the name given to the great hall of the Parliament House in Edinburgh, in which the Lords Ordinary of the Court of Session sit as single judges to hear causes. The term is used colloquially as expressive of the business done there in contradistinction to the Inner House, the name given to the chambers in which the First and Second Divisions of the Court of Session hold their sittings. 1991 E. A. Marshall Gen. Princ. Sc. Law 30 The Outer House does not have an appellate jurisdiction, i.e. it is not a court of appeal. < as lemmas |
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