||Tri`bu*nal" (?), n.
[Sp.]
In villages of the Philippine Islands, a kind of townhall. At the tribunal the head men
of the village met to transact business, prisoners were
confined, and troops and
travelers were often quartered.
Tri*bu"nal (?), n. [L. tribunal, fr.
tribunus a tribune who administered justice: cf. F. tribunal. See Tribune.]
1. The seat
of a judge;
the bench on which a judge and his
associates sit for administering
justice.
2. Hence, a court or forum; as, the
House of Lords, in England, is the highest tribunal in the kingdom.
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