Superior Court
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A Superior Court is a court of general competence which typically has unlimited jurisdiction with regard to civil and criminal legal cases. Its "superiority" describes its position relative to a court with limited jurisdiction. However, the term "superior court" raises the obvious question of what exactly it is superior to, especially as "some states, like California, have unified their court systems. In California, all lower courts were absorbed into the superior courts after 1998. The lower courts now exist only as mere administrative subdivisions of the superior courts. The superior courts are legally no longer superior to any other courts. Thus, the term "superior court" persists in California only as a matter of tradition."[1]
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