Court of Justice
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Court · court · court of justice · Courts of Justice · assembly of the Āryas · court of Brahma · courtroom · dharmādhikaraṇam · law-courts · tribunals
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Against Timocrates (Greek)
and his object is not any public benefit to the State,—that is impossible, for his law robs those Courts of Justice, which are the pillars of the constitution, of all power to impose the additional penalties attached by the laws to transgressions,—but that certain of those men who have long battened on your substance and pillaged your property may not even refund moneys which they were openly caug …
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Against Timocrates
The Athenian court institution whose verdicts, sessions, and authority are defended.
Can anyone see any public advantage in a law that is to override the decisions of a court of justice, and that requires unsworn persons to cancel the judgements of sworn juries?
If he had merely advised us of the right course for the future, there would have been no harm in it but, when a court of justice has given its verdict and determined the issue, is it not outrageous to introduce a law by which that verdict is to be rescinded?
It follows that the whole business of the State must go to rack and ruin when, the payments on account of taxation being insufficient, there is a large deficiency, when that deficiency cannot be made up until towards the end of the year, and when, as regards the supplementary payments, neither the Council nor the law-courts have authority to imprison defaulters, if they put in sureties until the ninth presidency.
Kātyāyana Smṛti
The formal institutional venue where the king or his appointed judge investigates disputes according to Dharma.
The place where the investigation of the essential truth is undertaken through deliberation on the scriptures of Dharma is the Court of Justice (*dharmādhikaraṇam*).
The king, a vanquisher of foes, should conduct the determination of cases in the forenoon in the courtroom, following the path laid down by the sacred texts.
The court should be attended by a few merchants of noble family, character, age, conduct, and wealth, who are free from envy and of established lineage.
Manusmṛti
The royal tribunal where the king or his appointed judge hears cases, aided by Brāhmaṇa assessors.
226[230M] // But a king, desiring to adjudicate lawsuits, should enter the court of justice, being humble, together with Brāhmaṇas and with ministers skilled in counsel.