trial court
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3.7
- noun
- /ˈtraɪəl kɔrt/
- Specialized
:
tribunal de primera instancia
- The trial court decided the case after hearing testimony from several witnesses.
- trial court decision
- trial court ruling
- trial court judges
Thousands of trial courts have made serious legal mistakes.
- Thousands of trial courts have made serious legal mistakes.
- So this is what we call direct appeal directly from the trial court up through the state Supreme Court.
- We filed, we, we appealed the denial in the state trial court to the Florida Supreme Court.
- So the first thing I will read to inform myself is what other judges have said about the case, what the trial court judge said, the Court of Appeals.
- The signar sued to recover the funds, and at trial Leroy did not raise an illegality defense and the trial court found for signar.
- And it could be a real problem when people on the court have ideas about the way things happen in the trial court.
- If moot court is a simulation of appellate advocacy, then mock trial is a simulation of a real trial at the trial court level.
- So I think the Supreme Court will issue a stay of all these proceedings pending president, just the trial court.
- But unfortunately, the judge in the case was in a man named Walter Jones, who actually also was the trial court judge in New York Times for Sullivan.
- They can now appeal the decision, but it's it's over at the trial court.
Examples
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On review, the Ninth Circuit followed suit and upheld the trial court's dismissal.
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On rehearing, the full court of appeals affirmed the trial court's decision that the statute was unconstitutional.
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So this is what we call direct appeal directly from the trial court up through the state Supreme Court.
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I think I'll let the trial court sort that one out.
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Thousands of trial courts have made serious legal mistakes.
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The plan called for the creation of a single trial court level with general jurisdiction.
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The church has already filed an appeal, but the trial court ruling is generally upheld in these matters.
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The trial court instructed the jury under the newly articulated Miller standard, and the jury convicted.
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The Indiana Court of Appeals rejected both arguments in affirming a trial court's decision for the school district.
Academic text (1995) -
Many of the persuasive principles used in appeals to trial court judges work in appellate courts as well.
Academic text (2002)
Synonyms
∞
1.4
A place where a judge hears and decides legal cases
76
3.2
A place where a judge hears and decides cases about the law
2
3.1
A place where a judge hears cases and gives decisions
Antonyms
How Formal
- Specialized
9
3.7
- Formal
2
6.9
- Formal
∞
3.6
- Informal
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning of 'trial court' is directly composed from 'trial' (a court procedure to determine facts) and 'court' (a forum for judges), so a learner who knows both words can infer it denotes a court where trials are held. This compound follows a common noun+noun English pattern and has clear parallels in other languages, making it immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Trial court comes from the simple idea of a trial as a test of the facts and a court as the place where judges meet. It is the place where people 'test' the evidence and 'hear a case' first, so trial court means the court that decides what happened before any appeal.