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A stage where stories compete and the best-rehearsed truth usually wins.
means The room where legal cases are argued, evidence is presented, and a judge or jury decides the outcome.
from From court, via Old French cort, from Latin cohors meaning an enclosed yard — once where kings held audience, later where justice did.
Bar originsThe literal bar once separated lawyers from spectators.
Silence ruleOrder keeps testimony clean and the record uncontaminated.
Raised benchJudges sit high to signal authority over the room.