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Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law · Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881

Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law

they are the only courts exercising equity powers, or having jurisdiction of appeals from courts of probate, of awards of land damages, and of divorce or matrimonial causes. In some States the jurisdiction of the supreme courts is appellate only; in others, an appellate court above the supreme has been established, called the Court of Appeals, or Court of Errors. There is generally also a court (109.) called the Court of Common Fleas, County Court, Circuit Court for the County, or Superior Court, having large original jurisdiction, and some appellate j urisdiction from minor courts or tribunals. Usually this court has also sittings in bank. In some States there are Courts of Chancery or Equity, exercising general equity powers and distinct from the courts of common law. There are usually (110.) district courts exercising powers over the probate of wills, matters testamentary, guardianship, and occasionally trusts; called