The Legal Term * Original Jurisdiction * Defined & Explained ... ORIGINAL JURISDICTION - That which is given to courts to take cognizance of cases which may be instituted in those courts in the first instance.
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A court's power to hear and decide a case before any appellate review. A trial court must necessarily have original jurisdiction over the types of cases it hears.
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(a) The Supreme Court shall have original and exclusive jurisdiction of all controversies between two or more States. ... The Supreme Court shall have original but not exclusive jurisdiction of:
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Definition of original jurisdiction from Webster's New World Law Dictionary. ... When an appellate court tries a case de novo on appeal, it is said to be exercising its original jurisdiction rather than its appellate jurisdiction. State-and-county level trial courts have original jurisdiction.
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Definition of Original jurisdiction in the Legal Dictionary - by Free online English dictionary and encyclopedia. What is Original jurisdiction? Meaning of Original jurisdiction as a legal term. What does Original jurisdiction mean in law? ... Original jurisdiction is distinguishable from appellate jurisdiction,
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the authority of a court to try a case in the first instance and give judgement accoding to the facts and evidences as distinguished from appelate jurisdiction which has already been tried but an appeal is made for review.
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A court of general jurisdiction is one that has the authority to hear cases of all kinds - criminal, civil, family, probate, and so forth. The original jurisdiction of a court refers to matters on which the court rules in the first instance, as opposed to matters in which it reviews the decision of another court...
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Original Jurisdiction Is the jurisdiction exercised by the court that initially hears a lawsuit. As a court of first instance, this tribunal must ... Congress created the U.S. district courts as the primary courts of original jurisdiction for the federal judiciary. Article III of the Constitution confers original...
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