act of court

If the king passed a law unilaterally it was called "Acts of Courts" and required ratification by the courts.

Usatges of Barcelona, constitutions, chapters and acts of court and other laws of Catalonia.

As you pointed out, it's the very act of court martial that is going to bring this whole thing right out into the open, where we don't want it to be.'

The presumption of validity is another way of expressing a burden of proof: the official acts of courts are presumed to be valid, and those who would challenge them must overcome this presumption.

The justices need to address the impropriety of allowing companies to buy the silence of key witnesses without blowing a hole in the basic constitutional requirement that states give "full faith and credit" to the acts of courts in other states.

As Bishop he had access to the Catholic Merovingian princess Ingunthis, who had come as a bride for the kingdom's heir, and he worked tirelessly with her to convert her husband St. Hermenegild, the eldest son of Liuvigild, an act of court intrigue that cannot honestly be divorced from a political context.