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| the official power to make legal decisions and judgments. |
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| The original jurisdiction of a court is the power to hear a case for the first time, as opposed to appellate jurisdiction, when a court has the power to review a lower court's decision. |
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| An appellate court, commonly called an appeals court or court of appeals (American English)[1] or appeal court (British English) or court of second instance or second instance court, is any court of law that is empowered to hear an appeal of a trial court or other lower tribunal. |
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| Limited jurisdiction, or special jurisdiction, is the courts' jurisdiction only on certain types of cases such as bankruptcy, family matters, etc |
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| A delinquent child is a child of a certain age, who has violated a criminal law or engaged in a disobedient, indecent or immoral conduct. |
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| Child abuse is the physical, sexual or emotional maltreatment or neglect of a child orchildren. |
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| intervention in a dispute in order to resolve it; arbitration. |
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| A form of arbitration in which the arbitrators starts as a mediator but in the event of a failure of mediation, the arbitrator imposes a binding decision. |
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| A judicial examination and determination of facts and legal issues arising between parties to a civil or criminal action. |
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| a thing said, written, or done to deal with or as a reaction to a question, statement, or situation. |
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| the ability to make considered decisions or come to sensible conclusions. |
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| the temporary release of an accused person awaiting trial, sometimes on condition that a sum of money be lodged to guarantee their appearance in court. |
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| the action of arraigning someone in court. |
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| In the law of the United States, diversity jurisdiction is a form of subject-matter jurisdiction in civil procedure in which a United States district court in the federal judiciary has the power to hear a civil case where the persons that are parties are "diverse" in citizenship |
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| An intermediate people's court is the second lowest local people's court |
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| Appellate jurisdiction is the power of a court to review decisions and change outcomes of decisions of lower courts. Most appellate jurisdiction is legislatively created, and may consist of appeals by leave of the appellate court or by right. Depending on the type of case and the decision below, appellate review primarily consists of: an entirely new hearing (a non trial de novo); a hearing where the appellate court gives deference to factual findings of the lower court; or review of particular legal rulings made by the lower court (an appeal on the record). |
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A court of general jurisdiction is one that has the authority to hear cases of all kinds - criminal, civil, family, probate, and so forth. Courts ofgeneral jurisdiction in the United States[edit] All federal courts are courts of limited jurisdiction.
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| unruly, ungovernable, intractable, refractory, recalcitrant, willful, headstrong mean not submissive to government or control. unrulyimplies lack of discipline or incapacity for discipline and often connotes waywardness or turbulence of behavior |
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| Alternative dispute resolution (ADR) (also known as external dispute resolution in some countries, such as Australia[1]) includes dispute resolution processes and techniques that act as a means for disagreeing parties to come to an agreement short of litigation. It is a collective term for the ways that parties can settle disputes, with (or without) the help of a third party. Despite historic resistance to ADR by many popular parties and their advocates, ADR has gained widespread acceptance among both the general public and the legal profession in recent years. In fact, some courts now require some parties to resort to ADR of some type, usually mediation, before permitting the parties' cases to be tried (indeed theEuropean Mediation Directive (2008) expressly contemplates so-called "compulsory" mediation; this means that attendance is compulsory, not that settlement must be reached through mediation). The rising popularity of ADR can be explained by the increasing caseload of traditional courts, the perception that ADR imposes fewer costs than litigation, a preference for confidentiality, and the desire of some parties to have greater control over the selection of the individual or individuals who will decide their dispute.[2] Some of the senior judiciary in certain jurisdictions (of which England and Wales is one) are strongly in favour of this (ADR) use of mediation to settle disputes.[3] |
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| the use of an arbitrator to settle a dispute. |
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| Summary jury trial is an alternative dispute resolution technique, increasingly being used in civil disputes in the United States. |
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| A clause that specifies that the parties to the agreement have promised to use an alternative dispute resolution technique when a disagreement arises rather than litigating the issue. |
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| a decision on a disputed issue in a civil or criminal case or an inquest. |
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| seize (someone) by legal authority and take into custody. |
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| a formal charge or accusation of a serious crime. |
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What are the two court systems in the United States? |
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What is the source for the fedral court systems"s authority? |
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In what kind of case does the fedral distrct court have origional juristiction? |
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| to make a change to the constitution |
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when are the police allowed to search a car without a warrent? |
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| when there is probable cause |
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How does a verdict differ from a judgment? |
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| verdict is final, judgment is not. |
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Describe the rights of an arrested person |
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| They have the miranda rights |
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What happens if the jury can't decide on a verdict? |
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Under what circumstances might a judge commit a juvenille offender to a reform school? |
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| if they are a first time offender and his/her family isnt reliable enough to raise the child properly |
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