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Local Courts, tribunals of a limited and special jurisdiction, the several county courts throughout the country, the Court of Passage at Liverpool, and the Mayor's Court of London. See, further, BOROUGH COURTS; INFERIOR COURTS....
Local jurisdiction
Local jurisdiction, in relation to a court or Magistrate, means the local area within which the Court or Magistrate may exercise all or any of its or his powers under this Code and such local area may comprise the whole of the State, or any part of the State, as the State Government may, by notification specify. [Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974), s. 2 (j)]...
Passage, Court of
Passage, Court of, this is an ancient court of record for the trial of civil actions arising within the City of Liverpool; see the preamble to the Liverpool Court of Passage Act, 1893, Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Local Courts.' This and an amending Act of 1896 were repealed by a local Act (the (English) Liverpool Corporation Act, 1926 (11 & 12 Geo. 5, c. lxxiv.), ss. 244-263, providing for jurisdiction, rules of procedure, removal of actions to the High Court, transfers to the county courts, appeals, execution, etc....
Inferior Courts (UK)
Inferior Courts (UK). They are the Court baron, the hundred Court, the borough civil Court, the County Court, the Mayor's Court, London, and also all courts of a special jurisdiction; but the county Courts are by far the most important of them. They are all controllable by writ of prohibition if they exceed their jurisdiction. See, further, the Borough and Local Courts of Record Act, 1872 (35 & 36 Vict. c. 86); and as to the jurisdic-tion of such courts, and the rules of procedure in force therein, see also the Judicature Act, 1925, ss. 201-209, and COUNTY COURTS.The (English) Inferior Courts Judgments Extension Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 31), following the procedure of the Judgments Extension Act, 1868, which applies to superiors courts only, renders, to a certain extent, judgments obtained in inferior courts in England, Scotland, and Ireland res-pectively, effectual in any other part of the United Kingdom; but the working of the Act is very much cramped by the provision of s. 10, th...
County
County [fr. Comte, Fr.; comitatus, Lat.], a shire or portion of country comprehending a great number of hundreds. England is divided into forty counties or shires, Wales into twelve and Scotland into thirty.It seems probable that the realm was originally divided into counties with a view to the convenient administration of justice, the judicial business of the kingdom having, in former times, been chiefly despatched in local Courts held in each different county, before the sheriff as its principal officer. His duties are now more ministerial than judicial.All the English counties except Rutland are subdivided for purposes of parliamentary representation.As to the divisons of counties for holding petty and special sessions, see the (English) Division of Counties Act, 1828 (9 Geo. 4, c. 43), the (English) Petty Sessional Divisions Act, 1836 (6 & 7 Wm. 4, c. 12), and the (English) Petty Sessional Divisions Act, 1859, Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Justices (Sessions).'By (English) Local Governm...
Manor
Manor [fr. manerium, Lat.; manoir, Fr., habitation, or manendo, of abiding there, because the lord usually resided there], an estate in fee-simple in a tract of land granted by the sovereign to a subject (usually of power and consequence) in consideration of certain services to be performed. The tenementales were granted out; the dominicales (whence the ter demesne) were reserved to the lord; the barren lands which remained formed the 'wastes'; the whole fee was termed a lordship or barony; and the Court appendant to the manor the Court baron. Every manor (with some doubtful and unimportant exceptions) is of a date prior to the statute of Quia Emptores (18 Edw. 1, c. 1).'A manor,' says Mr. Joshua Williams, 'was made by the owner of an estate in fee carving out other estates in fee to be held by other freeholders as his tenants. A manor consists of demesnes and services: of demesnes, that is, of lands of which the freeholder, now become lord of a manor, is seised in his demesne as of fe...
Cornwall, Duke of
Cornwall, Duke of, one of the titles of the eldest son of the reigning sovereign of the United Kingdom. He is Duke of Cornwall by inheritance, and is usually made Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester by special creation and investiture. Cornwall is a Royal Duchy, the revenues of which belong to the eldest son of the sovereign for the time being, and are administered under the (English) Duchy of Cornwall Management Acts, 1863 and 1868 (26 & 27 Vict. c.49), (31 & 32 Vict. c. 35), s. 25 of the earlier Act abolishing leases for lives (see LIVES). The special jurisdiction and powers of the Vice-Warden of the Stannaries Court [see (English) Stannaries Acts, 1836 and 1837] were abolished by the (English) Stannaries Court (Abolition) Act, 1896 (59 & 60 Vict. c. 45), the jurisdiction and powers being transferred to the County Court of Cornwall, see (English) County Courts Act, 1934 (24 & 25 Geo. 5, c. 53); Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Local Courts,' See also STANNARY....
justice of the peace court
justice of the peace court :a local court of limited jurisdiction usu. over minor civil and criminal actions, small claims, and some felony preliminaries which is presided over by a justice of the peace and which usu. follows summary procedure NOTE: Justice of the peace courts were formerly common but now are used or remain active to some extent in only a few states. ...
state courts
state courts courts established by various state governments, including county and local courts. Source: Federal Judicial Center ...
Zillah Court
Zillah Court, local or divisional Court, Ibid...
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