What is meant by original jurisdiction, as applied to a court?
The United States Supreme Court has original jurisdiction of a few important classes of cases.
By original jurisdiction is meant the right to commence cases in the particular court.
The Circuit Court of Appeals has no original jurisdiction.
The court decided, and we think very properly, that the legislature could not give original jurisdiction in such a case.
So the judgments of county or other minor courts are often reviewable on appeal for errors in law in some superior court which, like them, is principally occupied in the exercise of an original jurisdiction.
The trial courts of the United States of original jurisdiction follow in general the practice of the state in which they sit as to procedure in cases of common-law character.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "original jurisdiction" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
