Justices' Courts
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
Inferior tribunals, not of record, with limited jurisdiction, bath civil and criminni, held by justices of the peace. There are courts so called in many of the states.
See Searl v. Shanks, 9 N. D. 204, 82 N. W. 734; Brownfield v. Thompson, 96 Mo. App. 340, 70 S. W. 378.