Superior Courts in United States
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The highest state courts of original jurisdiction (in U.S. law). These courts are usually designated as circuit, district, or superior courts. (In New York the highest court of original jurisdiction is called the Supreme Court.) They have original jurisdiction in the first instance and are the courts where cases not within the jurisdiction of inferior courts are tried originally. They also have appellate jurisdiction over matters arising in inferior courts and, in many states, over probate matters. They control or supervise the lower courts by WRITS of error, appeal, or certiorari. In some states, superior courts have one or more departments or divisions that have jurisdiction over special matters. For example, the Superior Court of New Jersey has a law division for the trial of actions at law and a chancery division for hearing equity (in U.S. law) matters; in California, a department of each superior court acts as a probate court. Other states have courts of special jurisdiction (in U.S. law) to probate matters.
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