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The Adult probation and parole services for Philadelphia are under the jurisdiction of the Common Pleas court. The Intake and Interstate Units are located in the Basement of the Criminal Justice Center, while all other units are located at 714 Market Street. Criminal dockets would be CP-51-CR-*****-2007. CP denotes the court, in this case ...
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 ...
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 ...
The New York Court of Common Pleas was a state court in New York. Established in the Province of New York in 1686, the Court remained in existence in the Province and, after the American Revolution, in the U.S. state of New York until it was abolished in 1894. James Wilton Brooks wrote in History of the Court of common pleas of the city and ...
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 ...
The Commonwealth Court's headquarters is in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, with jurisdiction over administrative and civil public law. The Superior Court of Pennsylvania is the other intermediate appellate court in the Pennsylvania Unified Judicial System, having jurisdiction over criminal and private civil cases. The jurisdiction of the nine-judge ...
A court of common pleas is a common kind of court structure found in various common law jurisdictions. The form originated with the Court of Common Pleas at Westminster, [citation needed] which was created to permit individuals to press civil grievances against one another that did not involve the King. The courts of common pleas in England and ...
The courts of common pleas are the trial courts of general jurisdiction in the state. They are the only trial courts created by the Ohio Constitution (in Article IV, Section 1). The duties of the courts are outlined in Article IV, Section 4. Each of Ohio's 88 counties has a court of common pleas.