byret

Danish

Etymology

by (“city”) +‎ ret (“court”)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbyˌʁad/

Noun

byret c (singular definite byretten, plural indefinite byretter)

  1. (Denmark, law) one of the 24 courts (+2 in Greenland and the Faroe Islands) that serve as court of first instance for minor cases; cases may be appealed to the two landsretter (“national courts”), and from there to højesteretten (“the supreme court”)

Inflection

Declension of byret
common
gender 		singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative byret byretten byretter byretterne
genitive byrets byrettens byretters byretternes

Derived terms

  • byretsdom
  • byretspræsident

See also

References

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