What is "lawcourt"

Usage examples of "lawcourt".

Let us not mistake reformed councils, more lawcourts and even governorships for real freedom or power.

He only went into the lawcourts when there was a subtle point of law to argue.

Again I made the sign against evil, and suddenly wished I was back in far Dumnonia where there were lawcourts and palaces and long Roman roads.

He was notorious as a creature of pettifogging detail who loved the quibbles of the lawcourts and the squabbles of the church.

Derfel, all the roads and lawcourts and bridges, and all the disputes we settled and all the prosperity we made, and all of it is turned to nothing by religion!

They do this—sometimes they do it over and over—and then, oftentimes, they expect the lawcourts to free them from their folly.

Gremio had seen too much combat in the lawcourts and on the field to have much sympathy for that point of view.

They do this—sometimes they do it over and over—and then, oftentimes, they expect the lawcourts to free them from their folly.