A court having Ju-risdiction to hear and redress injuries or affronts to a man’s honor or personal dignity, of a nature not cognisable by the ordinary courts of law, or encroachments upon his rights in respect to heraldry, coat-armor, right of precedence, and the like, it wns oue of the functions of the Court of Chivalry (q. v.) in England to sit and act as a court of honor. 3 Bl. Comm. 104. The name is also given in some European countries to a trl-bunal of army officers (more or less distinctly recognized by law as a “court”) convened for the purpose of inquiring into complaints of-fecting the honor of brother ofilcers and punishing derelictions from the code of honor and deciding on the causes and occasions for flght-lng duels, in which officers are concerned, and the manner of conducting them
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
