The General Court of Justice constitutes a unified judicial system for purposes of jurisdiction, operation and administration, and consists of an appellate division, a superior court division, and a district court division.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 7A-4
Composition and organization
Known as the Judicial Department Act
The act spans §§ 7A-1 to 7A-4 (4 sections).
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case United States v. Allen (2006)
Most recently applied in 257 N.C. App. 113 - The NC State Bar v. Foster (December 2017)
1965, c. 310, s. 1.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: North Carolina General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain North Carolina statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.