Tribunal

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun The seat of a judge; the bench on which a judge and his associates sit for administering justice.

II. Tribunal ·noun Hence, a court or forum; as, the House of Lords, in England, is the highest tribunal in the kingdom.

III. Tribunal ·add. ·noun 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.

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