Court of Law

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Any tribunal within a judicial system. under english common law and in some states it was a court which heard only lawsuits in which damages were sought, as distinguished from a court of equity which could grant special remedies. that distinction has dissolved and every court (with the exception of federal bankruptcy courts) is a court of law.

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