Meanings
nouncivil court (plural civil courts)
plural civil courts
- A court dealing with cases in civil law.
The Fife County Council, and other objectors, were successful in July [1950] in obtaining an interim interdict against this decision, but the Court of Session withdrew the interdict in January, and it was then stated that a civil court had no jurisdiction in the matter.
1951 April, “Notes and News: North Fife Line, Scotland”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 281
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