A building where courts of law meet and legal cases are heard and decided.
A compound of 'court' and 'house'—'court' comes from Latin 'cohors' (enclosed space), and 'house' from Old English 'hus.' The compound term emerged as court systems formalized and required dedicated buildings.
The Latin word 'cohors' originally meant a military unit or enclosed group of soldiers—so 'court' literally meant 'enclosure,' which evolved to mean the enclosed space where justice happened, then the building itself.
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