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open court

noun

  1. a court or trial to which members of the public are freely admitted
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Gentlemen, imagine, if you will, having your most intimate measurement read out in open court?

The Canadian legal tradition requires an accuser to face the accused in open court.

But Mansfield Frazier says a trial in open court is the only way we'll know that justice was served.

Scher seemed resigned to the fact that he would have to curse in open court.

But if he did, the state should prove it in open court amid a candid discussion about what is secret and why.

Finally the great open court of the Louvre is reached—here a halt is made and a general romp occurs.

Opening this, he called in a loud voice across the open court to the cook, "Peter, bring me some salt."

He hath refus'd it in the open court: He shall have merely justice, and his bond.

In one district was trial by jury in an open court; in another the old procedure by written pleadings before a judge.

Accordingly the Judges delivered their opinion, and each argued it (though they were all agreed) seriatim and in open court.

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