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Summary jurisdiction, in the widest sense of the phrase, in English law includes the power asserted by courts of record to deal brevi manu (directly) with contempts of court without the intervention of a jury. Probably the power was originally exercisable only when the fact was notorious, i.e. done in presence of the court.
Within the American state court systems, jurisdiction in rem may refer to the power the state court may exercise over real property or personal property or a person's marital status. State courts have the power to determine legal ownership of any real or personal property within the state's boundaries.
The court ruled 7–2 that a right to privacy under the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment extended to a woman's decision to have an abortion, but that this right must be balanced against the state's two legitimate interests in regulating abortions: protecting women's health and protecting the potentiality of human life. [153] Doe v.
A court that has personal jurisdiction has both the authority to rule on the law and facts of a suit and the power to enforce its decision upon a party to the suit. In some cases, territorial jurisdiction may also constrain a court's reach, such as preventing hearing of a case concerning events occurring on foreign territory between two ...
Although women had to answer to their fathers in legal matters, they were free of his direct scrutiny in their daily lives, [32] and their husbands had no legal power over them. [33] When a woman's father died, she became legally emancipated . A married woman retained ownership of any property she brought into the marriage. [34]
Judges at the Supreme Court are to consider how women are defined in law in a landmark case brought by Scottish campaigners. It is the culmination of a long-running legal dispute which started ...
The Supreme Court's interpretations of constitutional law are binding on the legislative and executive branches of the federal government, on the lower courts in the federal system, and on all state courts. [8] This system of binding interpretations or precedents evolved from the common law system (called "stare decisis"), where courts are ...
In Emily Raboteau's book of essays, 'Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against "the Apocalypse,"' her care for her neighborhood and her maternal care for her children are connected as she faces an ...