{
  "id": "court.legal",
  "term": "court",
  "sense": "legal",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 17,
  "arena": "court",
  "domain": "common",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a building where people come for a legal process under law",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "building.structure",
      "people.social",
      "law.rule",
      "process.general",
      "come.arrive",
      "legal.law"
    ],
    "interaction": "the building hosts people who arrive to follow a process that applies law within a legal status",
    "novel_properties": [
      "venue for legal proceedings",
      "structured legal access",
      "institutional authority"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Supreme Court of the United States heard arguments in Obergefell v. Hodges in 2015.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "In 2023, the International Court of Justice held hearings on Namibia's claim to Walvis Bay.",
      "domain": "geopolitics"
    },
    {
      "text": "Helsinki District Court processed 1,247 criminal cases in 2022, per Finnish judiciary reports.",
      "domain": "law"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "building.structure",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "law.rule",
      "note": "enables legal matters",
      "type": "enables"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "court",
    "courted",
    "courting",
    "courts"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added 'come.arrive' and 'legal.law' to components to align with definition's reliance on arrival and legal quality; interaction and novel properties updated accordingly."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-court.legal"
}