impromptu court

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But Para’s overheated schedule - midnight phone calls, impromptu court appearances, personally transporting veterans from lockup to designated facilities - created an illusion of how far you can stretch a buck.

From Washington Times • Nov. 6, 2016

The room became an impromptu court of law.

From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie

An impromptu "court" was organized: judge, sheriff and deputies; and these, with a few chosen men of the company, went to the trading post to convene an afternoon session.

From Crossing the Plains, Days of '57 A Narrative of Early Emigrant Travel to California by the Ox-team Method by Maxwell, Wm. Audley (William Audley)

Then she turned to them and led them to an impromptu court of justice behind the wheel-house.

From The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories by Patten, William

Nor did her impromptu court end with that.

From Southern Stories Retold from St. Nicholas by Various