A hall or public building in which judgments or trials at law are held; a court of justice; a tribunal. (Chiefly Hist.)
1534. Tindale, John xviii. 33. Then Pylate entred into the iudgement hall [1526 iudgement housse; Wyclif, mote hall; Rhem. palace] agayne, and called Iesus.
1600. J. Pory, trans. Leo’s Africa, II. 53. They have a kinde of tribunall or iudgement-hall, wherein all contentions … are presently decided.
1872. J. H. Ingraham, Pillar of Fire, 232. A scene depicted in the judgment-hall of Osiris.
