Examples from literature
- Civil and criminal courts are separate.
- For this sort of robbery the criminal court was twice assembled in the present month.
- The criminal court being assembled, she was tried and found guilty.
- The criminal court went outside the common law to prosecute political enemies, e.g. by dispensing with a jury.
- Towards the latter end of February a criminal court was convened, in which six of the convicts received sentence of death.
