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The courts of common pleas are the trial courts of general jurisdiction in the state. The name derives from the medieval English court of Common Pleas. Pennsylvania established them in 1722. [1] They hear civil cases with a significant amount in controversy and trials for serious crimes. They have original jurisdiction over all cases not ...
This is a list of former and current non-federal courthouses in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Each of the 67 counties in the Commonwealth has a city or borough designated as the county seat where the county government resides, including a county courthouse for the court of general jurisdiction, the Court of Common Pleas. Other courthouses are used by the three state-wide appellate courts ...
The Pennsylvania courts of common pleas are the state trial courts of general jurisdiction. There are 60 judicial districts, 53 of which comprise only one of Pennsylvania's 67 counties, and seven comprising two counties. Each district has from one to 93 judges. The courts of common pleas hear civil cases with an amount in controversy in excess ...
Docket (court) A docket in the United States is the official summary of proceedings in a court of law. [1][2] In the United Kingdom in modern times it is an official document relating to delivery of something, [2] with similar meanings to these two elsewhere. In the late nineteenth century the term referred to a large folio book in which clerks ...
1724 Chester Courthouse. The Chester Courthouse is a historic courthouse in Chester, Pennsylvania that served as the Chester County courthouse from 1724 to 1789, the Delaware County courthouse from 1789 to 1850 and the City Hall for the city of Chester. It was built in 1724 and is the oldest public building still standing in the United States.
Delaware County, colloquially referred to as Delco, [ 2 ] is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. With a population of 576,830 as of the 2020 census, [ 3 ] it is the fifth-most populous county in Pennsylvania and the third-smallest in area. The county was created on September 26, 1789, from part of Chester County and named for the ...
Court of record. A court of record is a trial court or appellate court in which a record of the proceedings is captured and preserved, for the possibility of appeal. [1][2][3] A court clerk or a court reporter takes down a record of oral proceedings. [4] That written record (and all other evidence) is preserved at least long enough for all ...
PaWD.uscourts.gov. Federal Courthouse, Erie, Pennsylvania. Federal Courthouse, Pittsburgh. The United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania (in case citations, W.D. Pa.) is a federal trial court that sits in Pittsburgh, Erie, and Johnstown, Pennsylvania. It is composed of ten judges as authorized by federal law.