inferior court
Britishnoun
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a court of limited jurisdiction
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any court other than the Supreme Court of Judicature
Example Sentences
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During Thursday’s hearing, Justice Jim Kitchens pushed back on lawmakers’ assertion that the new court in the Capitol Complex Improvement District is an inferior court with powers equivalent to a municipal court.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 6, 2023
Concurring in the result, he noted that, as an inferior court judge, he was not writing on a blank slate and was bound by the Supreme Court precedents, which were difficult to harmonize.
From Forbes ● Sep. 5, 2014
Next day the Appellate Court handed down a unanimous decision favoring Widow Busby, reversing the inferior court decisions.
From Time Magazine Archive
Many years later a charge to the jury to this effect was asked and refused in an inferior court.
From The American Judiciary by Baldwin, Simeon E., LLD
This was not solely confined to the higher tribunals, but was also apparent in almost every inferior court.
From Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume I (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte by Hamilton, Lady Anne
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