Corte (disambiguation)

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In the Spanish-speaking American republics, the word corte is most commonly used to designate courts of law: organs of the judiciary, not of the legislative branch. Thus, several Latin American countries have supreme courts known as the Suprema Corte or Corte Suprema, and the continent's San José-based Inter-American Human Rights Court is the Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos. Additionally, the official name of the International Criminal Court is Corte Penal Internacional for all varieties of Spanish.

In Spain itself, the word for a legal court tends to be tribunal or juzgado. It is not to be confused with the legislative Cortes.

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Corte is also the name of a commune in France:

• Corte, in the Haute-Corse département;

and of several communies in Italy:

• Corte Brugnatella, in the province of Piacenza
• Corte de' Cortesi con Cignone, in the province of Cremona
• Corte de' Frati, in the province of Cremona
• Corte Franca, in the province of Brescia
• Corte Palasio, in the province of Lodi