powers or jurisdictions‚ such as‚ original‚ appellate and administrative. Original Jurisdiction —— Under the original jurisdiction‚ a High Court has the power to issue direction or orders including writs to any person‚ authority and any government within its jurisdiction against the violation of the Fundamental Rights of the citizens. It has limited original jurisdiction in cases relating to admiralty‚ will‚ divorce‚ marriage‚ company laws and contempt of Court. • Appellate Jurisdiction —— Under
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The goal of this study is to propose an amendment to Section 195 of the Local Government Code (LGC) in the matter appealing a denial of protest of assessment by the local treasurer or his duly authorized representative to the court of competent jurisdiction. II. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM Under Section 195 of the Local Government Code which is quoted hereunder‚ a taxpayer who disagrees with a tax assessment made by a local treasurer may contest an assessment by filing a written protest
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In this case “Anthony Walden vs. Gina Fiore” they are trying to figure out if the state of Nevada has the right to exercise personal jurisdiction over the case. On August 8‚ 2006 TSA at San Juan airport searched Gina Fiore and Keith Gipson and their bags where they found about 97‚000 dollars cash‚ Fiore told them that they were just extreme gamblers that had just finished gambling at a local spot El San Juan. Also‚ she stated that she was a resident of California and Nevada and she planned to catch
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judicial systems connect. The authority of a court to hear and decide cases is called the jurisdiction. When a case is first brought to court is the authority of the original jurisdiction. When there is an error of law and the courts need to review the case‚ they will go to the appellate jurisdiction. When the court has the power to hear any case‚ this is called general jurisdiction. Special jurisdiction is where the court has the authority to hear exceptional circumstances. A particular
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family. A court in one of the divisions lacks subject matter jurisdiction to hear the case regarding matters of another division. U.S. state courts have a general jurisdiction; it means a state court is competent to hear to hear any case which no other state has jurisdiction over. The state has a role in hearing majority of the cases (Plager‚ 1989). Subject jurisdiction of the federal court is limited; federal court subject matter jurisdiction is derived from the congress enabling statues. The most important
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confounding and complicated elements and processes. In the United States there are two parallel systems of courts: federal and state. Each is divided into trial courts and appellate courts. There are more than 200 statewide general and limited jurisdiction trial court systems in the United States‚ the District of Columbia‚ and Puerto Rico‚ and more than 130 appellate courts on the state and federal levels. State appellate courts range in size from five to nine judges—most have a state court of last
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precedents and legislative law have validity of law. The Constitution of India is the supreme legal document of the country. There are various levels of judiciary in India – different types of courts‚ each with varying powers depending on the tier and jurisdiction bestowed upon them. They form a strict hierarchy of importance‚ in line with the order of the courts in which they sit‚ with the Supreme Court of India at the top‚ followed by High Courts of respective states with district judges sitting in District
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creature of international law‚ this agreement obliges each signatory state to apply only the rules specified within the instrument when a foreign arbitral award is sought to be enforced in a Convention jurisdiction. Conceptually‚ the NYC seeks to hold arbitral awards arising from Convention jurisdictions to a global standard‚ while also giving signatory states sufficient sovereign authority to interpret and apply its own provisions. The NYC achieves this by wording its provisions in such a manner that
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two sets of trial courts that are the trial court of limited jurisdiction and trial court of general jurisdiction. The Trial court of limited jurisdiction deals only with the specific types of cases and located near the cities and usually presided over by a single judge. The example of trial court system includes: Family court: The family court handles the family matters such as adoption‚ divorce‚
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California seeking a declaratory judgment. L.L. Bean filed a motion to dismiss the case for lack of personal jurisdiction. In November 2001‚ the federal district judge granted L.L. Bean’s motion finding that California did not have personal jurisdiction over L.L. Bean. Gator then appealed to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. (2) Legal Issue: Should California have general jurisdiction in order to grant Gator a declaratory judgment against L.L. Bean? Did L.L. Bean have a “consistent and substantial
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