Superior courts

In English law. The courts of the highest and most extensive jurisdiction, viz., the court of chancery and the three courts of common law, i. e., the queen's bench, the common pleas, and the exchequer, which sit at Westminster, were commonly thus denominated. But these courts are now united in the supreme ceurt of judicature.

In American law. Courts of general or extensive jurisdiction, as <hstm-guished from the inferior courts. As the official style of a tribunal, the term "superior court" bears a different meaning in different states. In some it is a court of intermediate jurisdiction between the trial couris and the chief appellate court; elsewhere it is the designation of the ordinary ntsi prim courts ; in Delaware it is the court of last resort.
Defined under Superior in Black's Law Dictionary.