Basilica

Originally, the palace of a king; but afterward, an apartment provided in the houses of persons of importance, where assemblies were held for dispensing justice; and hence, any large hall used for this purpose.

A building used by the Romans as a place of public meeting, with court rooms, etc., attached.(Arch.)

A digest of the laws of Justinian, translated from the original Latin into Greek, by order of Basil I., in the ninth century.