Sentences with phrase «inferior courts»

"Superior courts" are higher-level courts in a judicial system, while "inferior courts" are lower-level courts that handle less significant cases." Full definition
This was due to the inherent jurisdiction of the superior courts to maintain discipline within their courts independent of statute as opposed to the provincial or inferior courts whose jurisdiction was purely statutory.
Essentially, you're saying that the (some) higher US judges know better than to rely on the adequacy of the scholarship of inferior court jduges.
It consists of one Supreme Court and of such inferior courts as Congress shall from time to time ordain and establish.
The Judges of the Circuit and Chancery Courts, and of other Inferior Courts, shall be elected by the qualified voters of the district or circuit to which they are to be assigned.
Yes but expect that there would be a constitutional challenge under section 96 of the Constitution Act, and whether before 1867, copyright matters could be adjudicated before inferior courts presided over by provincially appointed judges.
-- By Bill for an Injunction, at the option of the Defendant, a suit removed at any stage from a Common - Law Court into an Equity Court: — by Certiorari, from Inferior Courts into Westminster - Hall Courts, under the diversifications expressed in the text, and others out of number.
The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.
HJR 91 (Constitutional Amendment) Allows legislature to set terms of office for judges of circuit, chancery, and other inferior courts.
The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behaviour, and shall, at stated Times, receive for their Services, a Compensation, which shall not be diminished during their Continuance in Office.
An inferior court appeal by 27 year old Al Jones, succeeded today when Justice Adolph Lucas ruled that they were discrepancies in the testimonies of prosecution witnesses and he quashed the conviction, set aside the sentence and acquitted Jones.
But they have seldom found much favour in the eyes of the appointing power; nor have the judges of the inferior courts who have given rise to the belief that they were moved by reforming impulses.»
That means, as far as I can see, the only consequences that Julian Assange could suffer would be committal for contempt of court, which is punishable by up to one month's detention (if tried by an inferior court like the Magistrates») or two years (if by a superior court).
MSS 230 Box 1 Folder 5: Kings County Court Records, Record of Cases Commenced, Inferior Court of Common Plea, 1766 - 1771.
The supreme court shall have general appellate jurisdiction, co-extensive with the state, in both civil and criminal causes, and shall have a general superintending control over all inferior courts, under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by law.
Likewise, the judicial branch was controlled by the General Assembly:» [t] he judicial power of the state shall be vested in such superior and inferior courts of law and equity, as the legislature shall, from time to time, direct and establish.
Article III of the Constitution says this: «The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.»
However, the jurisdiction of the inferior court or provincial court differed from the inherent powers of the superior courts.
'' [O] nly superior courts have an inherent power to punish for contempt committed in the absence of the court, i.e., ex facie, and that inferior courts of record have an inherent power which is restricted to punish for contempt committed in the face of the court.»
Congress has wide latitude to dictate the procedures of «inferior courts» — the district courts and circuit courts of appeal.
The judges, both of the supreme and inferior courts, shall hold their offices during good behaviour, and shall, at stated times, receive for their services, a compensation, which shall not be diminished during their continuance in office.
The judicial power of the United States, shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.
There are two kinds of court that exercise the judicial power of the United States: a Supreme Court and inferior courts that are established by Congress.
It should not be surprising that we see some things differently, but as members of an institution described in the Constitution as «such inferior courts,» we are ever mindful that the Supreme Court has the last word.
Certainly no part of judicial power of the country was conferred on them, because the Constitution expressly vests it «in one supreme court and such inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish,» and it is not pretended that the commission was a court ordained and established by Congress.
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