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Tribunal - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Tribunal : (noun)
1: an assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct
judicial business [syn: court, judicature]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Tribunal : \Tri*bu"nal\, n. [L. tribunal, fr. tribunus a tribune
who administered justice: cf. F. tribunal. See Tribune.]
1. The seat of a judge; the bench on which a judge and his
associates sit for administering justice.
2. Hence, a court or forum; as, the House of Lords, in
England, is the highest tribunal in the kingdom.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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TRIBUNAL. The seat of a judge; the place where he administers justice; but
by this term is more usually understood the whole body of judges who compose
a jurisdiction sometimes it is taken for the jurisdiction which they
exercise.
2. This term is Latin, and derives its origin from the elevated seat
where the tribunes administered justice.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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