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World Court

noun

  1. an international tribunal established under the Covenant of the League of Nations and replaced in 1945 by the International Court of Justice.


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Could the World Court try and imprison a politician who had conspired to attack another nation?

International legislation has occurred repeatedly, though no world-court has as yet been established.

A world-court would appeal to the strongest, the purest, and the deepest thinkers of every race.

It stood in a little, old-fashioned, old-world court, back of Bloomsbury.

There are some fine Brancaccio portraits, in the curious old-world court dress of the Neapolitan ladies of the last century.

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