Word: court
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...finding of the Court of Inquiry in the case of allegations against Paymaster Rand, at Newport, have been returned by the Secretary of the Navy for revision in technical points...
...vaguely intimated that at times he seems to consider his high-backed chair a throne, and the necks of his meek contemporaries adjustable footstools. It is hinted that the executive whip is cracked with a facility that could only have been acquired by a prolonged apprenticeship at a German court. If such is the condition of things in the mysterious precincts of the faculty room it may be that the apprentice is acting on the principle that a little royalty is a dangerous thing and is therefore drinking deep draughts of sovereignty's ambition till an appreciative public shall...
General Hazen's friends claim that he proposes to ask for a military court of inquiry into the charges made against him by Congressman Beltzhoover...
This story did not originate at Harvard: One day not long ago a lawyer was arguing a case before the Supreme Court, and made use of the word "precedent," pronouncing it, however, with the accent on the second syllable, thus, "pre-ce-dent." Pretty soon he used the word again, and this time he gave the accent as it is usually given, on the first syllable. Justice Woods, who sits next to Justice Gray, noticing this variation in the lawyer's pronounciation, whispered to Justice Gray, "He pronounced it right the first time." Whereupon Justice Gray said, "What college were...
...United States Supreme Court has decided that the section of the civil-rights act relating to conspiracy to deprive any person of equal protection of the laws, is unconstitutional on the ground that the law infringes upon the reserved rights of the States...