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municipal court
a court whose jurisdiction is confined to a city or municipality, with criminal jurisdiction usually corresponding to that of a police court and civil jurisdiction over small causes. -
verge
the edge, rim, or margin of something: the verge of a desert; to operate on the verge of fraud. -
county court
A county court is a local court which deals with private disputes between people, but does not deal with serious crimes. -
extradition
The action of extraditing a person accused or convicted of a crime. -
foreign
of, relating to, or derived from another country or nation; not native: foreign cars. -
king's bench
a court, originally the principal court for criminal cases, gradually acquiring a civil jurisdiction concurrent with that of the Court of Common Pleas, and also possessing appellate jurisdiction over the Court of Common Pleas: now a division of the High Court of Justice.