Court-ridden

Quick meaning: Court-ridden is an adjective meaning Dominated or overly influenced by the (royal) court.

Meaning

Dominated or overly influenced by the (royal) court.

More Meanings

1. Dominated or overly influenced by the judiciary.

Example Sentences

I wonder shall History ever pull off her periwig and cease to be court-ridden? Shall we see something of France and England besides Versailles and Windsor?

Francis Joseph […] had discovered that under the Constitution of 1867 he could exercise greater actual power over his dominions than his Prussian “brother,” at Potsdam or, in a merely personal sense, than his other pliable and court-ridden “brother” at the St. Petersburg Winter Palace.

1936, “Labor Laws Await Supreme Court Test,” The Lather, Cleveland, Ohio: Wood, Wire and Metal Lathers’ International Union, Volume 34, No. 2, October 1936, p. 7. The United States of America is the most court ridden country in the world. ¶ Every federal court assumes the right and authority to declare any act of congress unconstitutional. In no other country do the courts presume to override national legislature.

So a Canadian who did not happen to know better might exclaim, Why, what’s the use of a Senate and House of Representatives or House of Assembly, when their hands are tied by the letter which killeth, when they cannot even “boss” a court? What kind of a country is it where no matter how offensive and discreditable a government may be, you cannot get rid of it till a time fixed beyond control? What a paper-governed, court-ridden country!

Related Words

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