TEd, that's a really good statement of how I would use those two words.
As for people "motioning" the court, I think they should be impacted with hammers....nouns being bastardized into verbs by lazy speakers of our wonderful language drives me nuts! I once wrote a radio piece on this in which I speculated on the rampant proliferation of this outrage and the resulting sentences: e.g. "If you don't vegetable, you can't dessert!' and "I'm hockeying tonight, can you car me?"

Frothin' at the mouth....