承审 (承審) chéngshěn

chéngshěn verb to administer justice
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In historic times, before a formal system of law courts existed (Guoyu '承審員'; Mathews 1931 '承審', p. 51)

Contained in

• 承审法官(承審法官) trial judge
• 承审员(承審員) a judge; an adjudicator of justice

Also contained in

承审公堂

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• 第二回 Chapter 99 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 2
• 第四十五回 Chapter 45 The Scholars 儒林外史 — count: 1

Collocations

• 承审不实 (承審不實) 承審不實之府州縣應請 — Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢, 第二回 Chapter 99 — count: 2