open court

noun

1. a court or trial to which members of the public are freely admitted

Example Sentences

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

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

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