trial court

1. 1.

   the first court before which the facts of a case are decided

   Broadercourt

   law

Questions about trial court

What does trial court mean?

trial court means "the first court before which the facts of a case are decided".

Is trial court a common word?

trial court is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.