1(in England) a higher court whose decisions have weight as precedents and which is not subject to control by any other court except by way of appeal.
（英国的）高等法院（其判决会成为先例，除上诉外，不受其他法院控制）
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Many features of manorial jurisdiction as practised in 1280 cannot have gone back more than a hundred years, because they so plainly echoed recent developments in superior courts.
The Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 had extended rights of audience in the superior courts to solicitors and section 62 recognised that they should in that capacity have whatever immunities were enjoyed by barristers.
It will be clear from my decision that I have held the original decision of the DSS to have been correct and that the claimant's various applications to the superior courts were misconceived.
It has been for a great number of years the unvaried practice of the learned judges of the superior courts strongly to advise a jury never to convict any man upon the evidence of an approver alone.
When special circumstances made the disciplining of a judge essential, the process was in the hands, not of a government agency, but of the judges of a superior court.
2(in some states of the US) a court of appeals or a court of general jurisdiction.
（美国某些州的）上级法院（接受上诉，有普遍的司法权）
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A sub-clerk was hired by the superior court and a room partitioned for him.
That is what our attorney used when we went to superior court, that the noise issue should not have been a determining factor.
‘I retained him in case after case,’ says Paul Gutman, an attorney and now superior court judge.
If the BOE rules in favor of the FTB, the taxpayer may then file an appeal with the superior court, but the taxpayer must pay all tax and penalties prior to the appeal.
It has got its legal eagles on the case and has filed a suit in a California superior court against various unidentified defendants.
Because of my testimony, Gregory Junior Patterson will be spending the rest of his life in jail with no right to make appeal in a superior court.
He then took it to superior court, where he also lost in a 2-1 decision.
This unification process transferred many of the tasks formerly performed by the municipal courts to the superior courts and streamlined judicial business overall.
Do you know how long it takes to become a qualified judge of a county superior court?
Definition of superior court in US English:
superior court
nounsəˈpirēər kôrt
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1(in many states of the US) a court of appeals or a court of general jurisdiction.
（美国某些州的）上级法院（接受上诉，有普遍的司法权）
Example sentencesExamples
A sub-clerk was hired by the superior court and a room partitioned for him.
He then took it to superior court, where he also lost in a 2-1 decision.
If the BOE rules in favor of the FTB, the taxpayer may then file an appeal with the superior court, but the taxpayer must pay all tax and penalties prior to the appeal.
‘I retained him in case after case,’ says Paul Gutman, an attorney and now superior court judge.
It has got its legal eagles on the case and has filed a suit in a California superior court against various unidentified defendants.
That is what our attorney used when we went to superior court, that the noise issue should not have been a determining factor.
Because of my testimony, Gregory Junior Patterson will be spending the rest of his life in jail with no right to make appeal in a superior court.
This unification process transferred many of the tasks formerly performed by the municipal courts to the superior courts and streamlined judicial business overall.
Do you know how long it takes to become a qualified judge of a county superior court?
2A court with general jurisdiction over other courts; a higher court.
Example sentencesExamples
When special circumstances made the disciplining of a judge essential, the process was in the hands, not of a government agency, but of the judges of a superior court.
It has been for a great number of years the unvaried practice of the learned judges of the superior courts strongly to advise a jury never to convict any man upon the evidence of an approver alone.
Many features of manorial jurisdiction as practised in 1280 cannot have gone back more than a hundred years, because they so plainly echoed recent developments in superior courts.
The Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 had extended rights of audience in the superior courts to solicitors and section 62 recognised that they should in that capacity have whatever immunities were enjoyed by barristers.
It will be clear from my decision that I have held the original decision of the DSS to have been correct and that the claimant's various applications to the superior courts were misconceived.