court of law
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3.2
- noun
- /kɔrt əv lɔ/
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tribunal
- Anything you say can be held against you in a court of law.
- evidence in a court of law
And he says, well, yes, the way things work in courts of law provides us with a closer analogy.
- And he says, well, yes, the way things work in courts of law provides us with a closer analogy.
- So you cannot discuss anything that you can't prove in a court of law.
- I can without a doubt in court in in a court of law, this would hold up.
- It was settled by a court of law by the by the Court of Appeal, no less.
- Well, regular free will would be the sort of thing that's presupposed in courts of law when somebody is judged guilty of an offense.
- Which is exciting to me because now my stalker is going to have to admit in the court of law whether or not he's, what he was saying is true or not.
- But it was deemed by a court of law that this happened whilst he was sleepwalking and he was actually acquitted.
- Well, we know from the Senate torture report that the CIA will never permit him to be charged in a court of law.
- And now we're going to mete out punishments way worse than any court of law would ever have contemplated for what the allegations are.
- You want to be able to say in a court of law that that source didn't have anything to do with the recording apparatus, and she's gonna love that.
- Well, regular free will would be the sort of thing that's presupposed in courts of law when somebody is judged guilty of an offence.
- And I was like, well, but the Constitution says that they have their right to face their accusers in a court of law, right?
- These are the sort of people that the court of law is going to impose.
- But people who've been gone through a court of law and sentenced, they're prisoners.
- These are some of the sort of accusations that have been made and in the court of law multiple times have been shown not to be true.
Examples
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But it was deemed by a court of law that this happened whilst he was sleepwalking and he was actually acquitted.
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Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law.
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And just as we do in a court of law, you need to give that person a chance to explain.
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Your book was written in a court of law and they decided your version of events, your story, was a lie.
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Anything you say can be used against you in a court of law.
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Anything you say may be used against you in a court of law.
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And we are talking about a business agreement that will hold up in a court of law.
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Subsequently, some of them had to stand trial in a court of law.
Academic text (1991) -
You have the right to remain silent, if you give up that right, anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law.
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Anything you say can be held against you in a court of law.
Synonyms
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1.4
A place where a judge hears and decides legal cases
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7.4
A group of people, usually judges, who decide cases in court
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3.1
A place where a judge hears cases and gives decisions
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3.8
A place where judges decide legal cases and apply the law
A place where a judge hears and decides legal cases
How Official
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3.2
- Specialized
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4.4
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- Formal
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7.4
- Specialized
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5.3
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4.2
- Literature
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a tribunal where legal cases are heard' is directly and compositionally derived from 'court' (a forum for judges) + 'law' (statute/regulation), with 'of' simply linking the two nouns. This noun-of-noun construction is cross-linguistically common and literal, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Court of law comes from the idea of a court as the place where a judge sat to hear people and law as the rules everyone must follow, so judges met in that place to settle problems, and that's why a court of law is the place where judges use the 'law' to decide cases.