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A separate building for storing court records was desirable due to the risk of fire in the main structure, in the event of record storage in the courthouse the county business would be destroyed. As counties raised the budgets for more permanent courthouses, a brick T-shaped structure became popular in Virginia and other mid-Atlantic colonies.
The Spanish used the courtroom from 1799 to 1803, and from 1803 to 1812, it was used by the Louisiana territorial superior court. After the American Civil War, it was the home of the Louisiana Supreme Court from 1868 to 1910. The Sala Capitular was the site of several landmark court cases, including Plessy v. Ferguson. In 1911 the Cabildo ...
Ealdred v High Sheriff of Yorkshire (c.1068); Wulfstan v Thomas (1070) [1] [2]; R v Roger de Breteuil; Trial of Penenden Heath (1071) [3] [4] regarded by some commentators as "one of the most important events in the early history of English Law because of the light it sheds on the relationship between Norman Law and English Law" with the trial being a possible indication of Norman respect for ...
American Museum of Natural History in New York City, façade on West 77th Street, built 1874–c. 1920s; Armory of the First Corps of Cadets, or Park Plaza Castle, Boston, Massachusetts, built 1897; Atalaya Castle, former home near Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, listed on the National Register of Historic Places; Bacon's Castle, Surry County ...
Native American earth lodge. Restored by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s. Cliff Palace: Mesa Verde National Park: CO 1190 Residential Largest cliff dwelling in North America. Buildings have been within the United States since the Mexican Cession of 1848. Malae Heiau: Wailua River State Park: HI before 1200 Religious
Peace Palace European Court of Human Rights. Courthouses of courts having international scope include: Peace Palace, in The Hague, Netherlands, seat of International Court of Justice of the United Nations; European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg, France; Future permanent premises of the International Criminal Court, The Hague
The trail — built in just five months for Cosimo I de’ Medici — connects Florence’s three most famous sites: the Palazzo Vecchio (the city’s political center), the Uffizi Galleries (once ...
Most courts featured a strict order of precedence, often involving imperial, royal and noble ranks, orders of chivalry, and nobility. Some courts even featured court uniforms. One of the major markers of a court is ceremony. Most monarchal courts included ceremonies concerning the investiture or coronation of the monarch and audiences with the ...