noun (n)

• an assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business(noun.group)

  Synonym:
  court, judicature
  

  source: wordnet30
• The seat of a judge; the bench on which a judge and his associates sit for administering justice.(noun)

  source: webster1913
• In villages of the Philippine Islands, a kind of townhall. At the tribunal the head men of the village met to transact business, prisoners were confined, and troops and travelers were often quartered.(noun)

  source: webster1913