They tend to all their social business here: establishing rank, courting, and even copulating take place around the dinner table.
Judices were often royal officials who supervised baronial, abbatial and other lower-ranking "courts".
Business groups have long ranked Mississippi courts last in surveys of fairness and probity.
His characterization of Barry, who is now a senior judge, is supported by, among other things, a law review study that attempted to rank appeals court judges ideologically and that placed her in the middle of the spectrum.
The 153-lot sale includes clothing made during the reigns of the 12 emperors of the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) — among the most spectactular items are an emperor's yellow silk embroidered dragon robe and an imperial noblewoman's ermine-lined surcoat — as well as smaller Qing items: rank badges, court hangings, furnishing textiles, purses, hats, shoes and jewelry.
Disappointment, perhaps, in the ranks of court watchers.
In the subsequent scene, the dais at which the main persons are seated, covered by misu, is opened and Murasaki Shikibu notes that the people present at the event and seated around the dais on the balcony were either of high rank or court ladies.
Other studies have reached similar conclusions, ranking the Roberts Court as the most pro-business Court since the Lochner era of 1897-1937.
Wozniacki, 21, appears to have grown weary of defending her ranking off the court.
Under Joerger, the Kings fling passes all over the court, ranking third with 324.4 per contest; the Pelicans throw significantly fewer.
But that rule, the Sixth Circuit observed in joining the ranks of unconvinced courts, "ha[d] not been a popular export". 880 F. 3d, at 790 (internal quotation marks omitted).
