请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 tribunal
释义

tribunal


tribunal

1. a court of justice or any place where justice is administered 2. (in Britain) a special court, convened by the government to inquire into a specific matter 3. a raised platform containing the seat of a judge or magistrate, originally that in a Roman basilica

Tribunal

In an ancient Roman basilica, a raised platform for the chair of the magistrates; a place of honor.

Tribunal

 

a legal term designating a locus of judicial authority; a special court.

(1) In ancient Rome, the raised platform on which important officials, such as consuls and praetors, sat when performing their official duties.

(2) In France, the revolutionary emergency court established during the French Revolution and called the Revolutionary Tribunal.

(3) In the USSR, courts established by the Council of People’s Commissars’ Decree on the Court No. 1, issued on Nov. 22 (Dec. 5), 1917, to combat counterrevolution and the most serious crimes (seeREVOLUTIONARY TRIBUNALS). Military tribunals are courts that try cases involving military and other crimes referred to their jurisdiction by law (seeMILITARY TRIBUNALS).

(4) An international judicial body for the prosecution and sentencing of major war criminals of World War II (seeINTERNATIONAL WAR TRIBUNAL) .

(5) In the judicial systems of certain bourgeois countries, such as France and Italy, a court of first instance or appellate court for cases tried by justices of the peace.

tribunal

In an ancient Roman basilica, a raised platform for the curule chairs of the magistrates.

tribunal


Tribunal

A general term for a court, or the seat of a judge.

In Roman Law, the term applied to an elevated seat occupied by the chief judicial magistrate when he heard causes.

tribunal

n. any court, judicial body, or board which has quasi-judicial functions (such as a public utilities board which sets rates or a planning commission which can allow variances from zoning regulations).

tribunal

a body convened to hear a dispute. While a court is a kind of tribunal, the word is often used for something which is not a court. In the constitutional law of the UK, an alternative forum for the resolution of disputes instead of the ordinary courts. They are mostly miscellaneous and are set up by statutes for various purposes. They quite often have entirely different rules of evidence and procedure from ordinary courts. They are generally supposed to be more flexible, more expert and speedier than the normal courts. They operate in many fields, including taxation, immigration, and landlord and tenant cases. The lives of many are affected by social security tribunals and the EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS appear to have been so much of a success that they are busy, respected and are given new jurisdictions from time to time. Some form of appeal usually lies from a tribunal, at least on law, to the ordinary courts, and there is a supervisory jurisdiction in the COUNCIL ON TRIBUNALS.

In the international sphere where the legal foundations are less solid, the German and Japanese war criminals were tried by an International Military Tribunal. At the time of writing the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia is still sitting. It was established under the Charter of the United Nations. See also WAITANGI TRIBUNAL.

TRIBUNAL. The seat of a judge; the place where he administers justice; but by this term is more usually understood the whole body of judges who compose a jurisdiction sometimes it is taken for the jurisdiction which they exercise.
2. This term is Latin, and derives its origin from the elevated seat where the tribunes administered justice.

tribunal


  • noun

Synonyms for tribunal

noun hearing

Synonyms

  • hearing
  • court
  • trial
  • bar
  • bench
  • industrial tribunal
  • judgment seat
  • judicial examination

Synonyms for tribunal

noun a judicial assembly

Synonyms

  • bar
  • court

Synonyms for tribunal

noun an assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business

Synonyms

  • court
  • judicature

Related Words

  • court of justice
  • court of law
  • lawcourt
  • court
  • assembly
  • International Court of Justice
  • World Court
  • Bench
  • appeals court
  • appellate court
  • court of appeals
  • assizes
  • court of assize
  • court of assize and nisi prius
  • chancery
  • court of chancery
  • consistory
  • criminal court
  • divorce court
  • court of domestic relations
  • domestic relations court
  • family court
  • federal court
  • F.I.S.C.
  • Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
  • inferior court
  • lower court
  • Inquisition
  • juvenile court
  • kangaroo court
  • military court
  • moot court
  • police court
  • probate court
  • quarter sessions
  • Rota
  • Star Chamber
  • superior court
  • high court
  • state supreme court
  • supreme court
  • traffic court
  • trial court
  • jury
随便看

 

英语词典包含2567994条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2024/9/23 7:26:14