This term may denote any court subordinate to the chief ap-peliate tribunal in the particular judicial system; hut it is commonly used as the designs-tion of a court of special, limited, or statuto-ry jurisdiction, whose record must show the existence and attaching of jurisdiction in any given cuse, in order to give presumptive va-lidity to its judgment Bee Ex parte Cuddy, 131 U. S. 280, 9 Sup. Ct 703, 33 L. Ed. 154; Kempe v. Kennedy, 5 Cranch, 185, 3 L. Ed. TO; Grignon v. Astor, 2 Uow. 341, 11 L. Ed. 283; Swift v. wayne Circuit Judges, 64 Mich. 479, 31 N. W. 434; Kirkwood v. washington County, 32 or. 568, 52 Pac. 568
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
