Police Court (Noun)
Meaning
A court that has power to prosecute for minor offenses and to bind over for trial in a superior court anyone accused of serious offenses.
Classification
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects.
Examples
- The traffic officer was told to take the offender to the police court to settle the issue of the fine.
- Judge Matthews handled numerous minor disputes on the bench at police court in Springfield, a practice which may soon disappear nationwide.
- Cases concerning social control - divorce and adoption hearings and Police Court actions involving lesser infractions, tended to produce heated interest locally.
- More rarely, police court would involve a trial, during which the bench and press would deliver the whole array of shaming rituals.
- Jenny's neighbor had once tangled with her over politics at a town meeting, and eventually she found herself explaining her actions in police court.