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Definition of Inferior court
1. Noun. Any court whose decisions can be appealed to a higher court.
Definition of Inferior court
1. Noun. Any court whose decisions can be appealed to a higher one. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inferior Court
Literary usage of Inferior court
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by William Blackstone, Thomas McIntyre Cooley (1884)
"... damages shall be given for the party complaining, and the defendant, and also
the inferior court, shall be prohibited from proceeding any farther. ..."
2. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1918)
"... to bring their proceedings into the superior court, where they may be reviewed
and quashed if it be made plainly to appear that such inferior court or ..."
3. A Practical Treatise of the Law of Evidence by Thomas Starkie, George Morley Dowdeswell, John George Malcolm, George Sharswood (1876)
"It appears also, that in the *case of an inferior court, such as a Court-baron,
Hundred, or County Court, evidence should be given of the proceedings," ..."
4. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
"Under the then Code of this state the justices of the inferior court of the
several counties had authority, upon the recommendation of the grand jury, ..."
5. The Works of John C. Calhoun by John Caldwell Calhoun, Richard Kenner Crallé (1851)
"latter implies that the case must commence in the Supreme Court, so the former
implies that the case must commence in' an inferior court, not having final ..."
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