tribunal

A law court.

The bench where a judge or other presiding judicial officer sits in court.

The place where a session of court is held.

A committee or board appointed to adjudicate in a particular matter.

Something that has the power to determine or judge.

The seat of a magistrate or judge; the bench on which a judge and his associates sit to administer justice.

Hence A court of justice.

Eccles., the confessional.

[Sp. pron. trē-bö-näl′ .] In villages in the Philippines, a kind of town-hall or common house, used as a meeting-place by the bead men of the village, for the entertainment of travelers, and for other purposes of general interest.