Court

:This article is about courts of law. For alternative meanings see: court (disambiguation).

Types of courts

Some courts may function with a jury that make decisions about the facts

Related Topics:
Jury - Fact

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before the court under the direction of the judge. In other courts,

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decisions of both fact and law are made by the judge or judges;

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this is particularly common in appellate courts where juries are unusual

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in most jurisdictions. Juries are far less common in courts outside the Anglo-american legal tradition based on common law.

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The extent of a court's power (authority) to hear the various matters which

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come before its "jurisdiction" – may stem from a provision

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of a written constitution, from an enabling statute or, for example in

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English law, it may be inherent, deriving from the common-law

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origin of the court.

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