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courthouse : a building in which court is regularly held ...
lockup
lockup 1 : a cell or group of cells (as in a courthouse) or jail where persons are held prior to a court hearing compare house of correction, house of detention, jail, penitentiary, prison 2 : the tactic of arranging with a friendly party an option to buy a valuable portion of one's corporate assets in order to discourage a takeover by another party ...
race-notice
race-notice [race from the notion of two parties rushing to the courthouse in order to be the first to record a claim or interest on the same property] : of, relating to, or being a recording act which stipulates that an unrecorded deed, mortgage, or lien shall not be valid against a recorded one unless the recording party (as a subsequent purchaser from the same seller) had notice of the interest or claim of the other party when recording compare notice, pure race NOTE: If one party purchases a property and records the deed, a subsequent purchaser is normally held to know about it — to have “constructive notice” of it — as a matter of law since it is a matter of public record. Under a race-notice statute, however, a subsequent purchaser cannot have constructive notice of an unrecorded deed, and so the recorded deed has priority unless the purchaser actually knew about — had “actual notice” of — the unrecorded deed. ...
tales
tales often attrib [from the Medieval Latin phrase tales de circumstantibus such (persons) of the bystanders; from the use of the phrase in the writ summoning them] : persons added to a jury from among those available in or about the courthouse or in the county to make up a deficiency in the number of jurors regularly summoned [a juror] ...
Courthouse
A house in which established courts are held or a house appropriated to courts and public meetings...
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