Usually, a legal body dispensing justice, but the word may also refer to a royal court, the original function of which was the dispensation of justice by the monarch.
Courts of law
Provision for and procedures of courts
See also
Justice dispensed by the court
Disputes settled in court
pp Lk 12:58-59
Provision for a court of appeal
Corruption in the court
The divine lawcourt
Royal courts
Egyptian
Israelite
Babylonian
Persian
The divine courts
