单词 | people's court |
释义 | > as lemmaspeople's court people's court n. [in sense 1b after German Volksgericht] a court of law nominally or actually controlled and staffed by the common people; spec. (a) (with capital initial) a court of the Soviet Union or of other countries having a similar legal system; (b) (with capital initial) a court set up by the Nazi regime in Germany to deal with political offences (now historical); (c) an unofficial court set up by a vigilante group, or to dispense mob justice. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > judicial body, assembly, or court > [noun] > court dealing with political offences people's court1892 1892 Cent. Mag. July 412/2 In the people's court of the elections—I could meet you there. 1915 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 21 396 The German system of people's courts without lawyers represents a triumph of method. 1921 A. Ransome Crisis in Russia 104 The ‘People's Court’. 1935 Ann. Reg. 1934 i. 191 A law of May 3 constituted a new and extraordinary Court of Justice, the so-called People's Court, for all political offences. This tribunal as well as the old regular courts in numerous cases passed excessively severe sentences on opponents of the Government. 1972 N.Y. Law Jrnl. 10 Oct. 1/5 The three-level federal system which emerged was composed of People's Courts with jurisdiction in rural areas; Regional Courts which are courts of first and second instance with appellate jurisdiction; and the Supreme Courts which are divided on a territorial basis into Supreme Courts of the autonomous republics, Union Republics and the U.S.S.R. 1994 H. Holland Born in Soweto 12 Nothing illustrates the moral confusion and deep-rooted brutality of Soweto more sombrely than the local justice dispensed in ‘people's courts’. < as lemmas |
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