court-houses

Take the Ten Commandments in school/court-houses etc.

Firedoglake » Speaking of Roosting Chickens… 2006

So, if Harry wanted to meet his friend, he had to do so in secret, at court-houses, taverns, or various places of resort; or in their little towns, where the provincial gentry assembled.

The Virginians 2006

Here are palaces, churches, court-houses and libraries, the genteel London shops, and the latest articles of perfumery.

Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo 2004

The BASILICAE were halls of justice (court-houses).

Ancient Rome : from the earliest times down to 476 A. D. Robert Franklin Pennell

Political centralization, governmental unity, later on, made it possible to run canals through different provinces, to establish barracks for troops over broad stretches of territory, to build court-houses and prisons, to reconstruct hospitals on new plans, and to open more extensive exchanges, markets, warehouses and slaughter-houses.

The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, No. 733, January 11, 1890 Various

British Columbia, post-offices on the prairies, armouries in Ontario and court-houses in Quebec.

The Masques of Ottawa Domino

I had been told that the judges often slept upon the bench; but I must confess, that although I have entered court-houses at all seasons during the space of fifteen months, I never saw an instance of it.

A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America

But even she cannot rob me of memory, and every trifle connected with my father is inexpressibly dear to me, and so I have an affection for all the old court-houses.

My beloved South, Mrs. T. P. O 1914

Other buildings such as court-houses, hospitals, and of course all religious houses and their granges, had chapels attached to them in medieval times; but, from the very first, except in the case of exempt monasteries and their dependencies, the appointment of priests to serve such chapels was always subject to the control of the bishop, which remains the law of the Church to this day.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

From one to another of these rude court-houses the gentlemen of the bar passed, following the judge around his circuits from county to county, travelling generally on horseback, with saddle-bags, brushes, an extra shirt or two, and perhaps two or three law books.

The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln Browne, Francis F 1913