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court of record
noun
- a court whose judgments and proceedings are kept on permanent record and that has the power to impose penalties for contempt.
Word History and Origins
Origin of court of record1
Example Sentences
They include being the first woman to serve as an assistant U.S. attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee; the first tenure-track female professor at Vanderbilt University Law School; and the first female judge to sit on the bench of a Tennessee court of record, the Court of Criminal Appeals.
In fact, past legislative sessions have weathered repeated attempts to require that justices of the peace who preside over a court of record be attorneys.
Erskine May says the House of Lords has the power to inflict fines in its capacity as a court of record.
If there were a comma present, the opinion said, then “of a court of record” would only apply to “order.”
He says the lack of a comma separating the phrase, “of a court of record,” means it refers to both “subpoena” and “order.”
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