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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tribunal \Tri*bu"nal\, n. [L. tribunal, fr. tribunus a tribune who administered justice: cf. F. tribunal. See Tribune.]
The seat of a judge; the bench on which a judge and his associates sit for administering justice.
Hence, a court or forum; as, the House of Lords, in England, is the highest tribunal in the kingdom.
Tribunal \Tri`bu*nal"\, n. [Sp.] In villages of the Philippine Islands, a kind of townhall. At the tribunal the head men of the village met to transact business, prisoners were confined, and troops and travelers were often quartered.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "a judgement seat," from Old French tribunal "justice seat, judgement seat" (13c.) and directly from Latin tribunal "platform for the seat of magistrates, elevation, embankment," from tribunus "official in ancient Rome, magistrate," literally "head of a tribe" (see tribune). Hence, "a court of justice or judicial assembly" (1580s).
Wiktionary
n. 1 An assembly including one or more judges to conduct judiciary business; a court of law. 2 (cx Philippines historical English) A kind of village hall used to transact business, to quarter troops and travellers, and to confine prisoners.
WordNet
n. an assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business [syn: court, judicature]
Wikipedia
A tribunal, generally, is any person or institution with authority to judge, adjudicate on, or determine claims or disputes—whether or not it is called a tribunal in its title. For example, an advocate who appears before a court with a single judge could describe that judge as 'their tribunal'. Many governmental bodies that are titled 'tribunals' are so described to emphasize that they are not courts of normal jurisdiction. For example, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda is a body specially constituted under international law; in Great Britain, employment tribunals are bodies set up to hear specific employment disputes. Private judicial bodies are also often styled 'tribunals'. The word tribunal is not conclusive of a body's function. For example, in Great Britain, the Employment Appeal Tribunal is a superior court of record.
The term is derived from the tribunes, magistrates of the Classical Roman Republic. "Tribunal" originally referred to the office of the tribunes, and the term is still sometimes used in this sense in historical writings.
"Tribunal" is an episode of The Outer Limits television show. It first aired on 14 May 1999, during the fifth season.
"Tribunal" is the 25th and penultimate episode of the second season of the syndicated American science fiction television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the 45th episode overall. It is the first episode directed by cast member Avery Brooks (Commander Benjamin Sisko).
Set in the 24th century, the series follows the adventures on Deep Space Nine, a space station located near a stable wormhole between the Alpha and Gamma quadrants of the Milky Way Galaxy. In this episode, Chief O'Brien ( Colm Meaney) is convicted and later accused at a tribunal held on Cardassia Prime, where the legal status of the accused is determined before the trial even begins: guilty. This episode provided a look at the Cardassian judicial system and culture.
A tribunal is a generic term for any body acting judicially.
Tribunal may also refer to:
In television:
- "Tribunal" (DS9 episode), 1994 episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
- "Tribunal" (The Outer Limits), episode of The Outer Limits
In other fields:
- Animated Alias: Tribunal, American animated short film produced in 2003 for the DVD release of the third season of Alias
- The Elder Scrolls III: Tribunal, expansion to the video game The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
- Tribunal (Guardians of Time), the governing body of the Guard in the Guardians of Time trilogy
Tribunal is a station on Line 1 and Line 10 of the Madrid Metro. It is located in Zone A.
Tribunal is an Australian television series which aired in 1963 to early 1964 on Sydney station ATN-7. Actors played controversial historical figures such as Brutus, General Custer, Lizzie Borden and Richard III, who were interrogated about their actions by Alistair Duncan. Among the actors who played roles were Gordon Glenwright, Ron Haddrick, James Condon, Kerry Francis, Denys Burrows Keith Buckley, and Nigel Lovell, The series aired in time-slots ranging from 10 minutes to 15 minutes
Despite airing in an era where Australian television series were often wiped, many of the episodes are held by the National Film and Sound Archive.
Usage examples of "tribunal".
The Christians sometimes supplied by their voluntary declaration the want of an accuser, rudely disturbed the public service of paganism, and rushing in crowds round the tribunal of the magistrates, called upon them to pronounce and to inflict the sentence of the law.
Following his advice, I wrote to the secretary of the Tribunal to the effect that I was happy to have given the Government a proof of my zeal, and an earnest of my desire to be useful to my country and to be worthy of being recalled.
Those who stood by her advising her to follow him, they now reached the tribunal of Appius.
In the initial interrogation by Tribunal president Herman, she was represented as an ungovernable wife, forcing Louis, for example, to issue the veto against anticlerical legislation and organizing the flight to Varennes.
Mr Jeffrey, it was a most unrelenting tribunal for literary culprits, as well as a determined assertor of its own political maxims.
State tribunal which prevents a recovery of taxes imposed in violation of the Constitution and laws of the United States by invoking a State law limiting suits to recover taxes alleged to have been assessed illegally to taxes paid at the time and in the manner provided by said law.
From there he went to Washington, a Bush appointee, to evaluate civilian objections to the military tribunals.
It is expressly declared in the Assise of Jerusalem, that after instituting, for his knights and barons, the court of peers, in which he presided himself, Godfrey of Bouillon established a second tribunal, in which his person was represented by his viscount.
January, 1820, Birotteau was declared a bankrupt by the commercial tribunal of the Seine.
Severus mounted the tribunal, sternly reproached them with perfidy and cowardice, dismissed them with ignominy from the trust which they had betrayed, despoiled them of their splendid ornaments, and banished them, on pain of death, to the distance of a hundred miles from the capital.
In Islam and in China, Westerners were under the exterritorial jurisdiction of their national representatives, and not under local tribunals.
The Count of the fifteen provinces of the East was dragged, like the vilest malefactor, before the arbitrary tribunal of Rufinus.
In the law of real property, its rules of tenure and descents, its entails, its fines and recoveries, their vouchers and double vouchers, in the procedure of the Courts, the method of bringing writs and arrests, the nature of actions, the rules of pleading, the law of escapes and of contempt of court, in the principles of evidence, both technical and philosophical, in the distinction between the temporal and spiritual tribunals, in the law of attainder and forfeiture, in the requisites of a valid marriage, in the presumption of legitimacy, in the learning of the law of prerogative, in the inalienable character of the Crown, this mastership appears with surprising authority.
It is a singular fact, and to this generation renders the entire proceeding measurably farcical, that the managers upon the part of the House, and the counsel for the impeached President, were at cross-purposes from the beginning as to the real character of the tribunal before which they were appearing.
Maimed females and children howling as they tried to stuff intestines back into their body cavities were necessary, as surely as the Molt in the ballroom of the Tribunal Palace in Belvedere had been, stooping behind the weight of his power gun--every shot turning a gay costume into burning, bloody rags.