Wiktionary
n. A court of general competence which typically has unlimited jurisdiction with regard to civil law and criminal law legal trial in the lowest hierarchy of a judiciary in a common law system.
WordNet
n. any court that has jurisdiction above an inferior court
Wikipedia
In common law systems, a superior court is a court of general competence which typically has unlimited jurisdiction with regard to civil and criminal legal cases. A superior court is "superior" relative to a court with limited jurisdiction (see lower court), which is restricted to civil cases involving monetary amounts with a specific limit, or criminal cases involving offenses of a less serious nature. A superior court may hear appeals from lower courts (see court of appeal).
Superior Court is a dramatized court show that aired in syndication from 1986 to 1990, and featuring fictionalized re-enactments of actual court cases.
Former real-life judge William D. Burns Jr. presided for the first season, while actress Jill Jakes presided the second season and Raymond St. Jacques as Judge Clayton C. Thomas served as the presiding judge during the last two seasons.
Reruns were later aired on the USA Network during the early 1990s.
Usage examples of "superior court".
I had always known there were monkeyshines of some kind going on in the Kindle County Superior Court.
Adams was admitted to the bar in a ceremony before the Superior Court at Boston on November 6, 1759, and in a matter of weeks, at age twenty-four, he had taken his first case, which he lost.
The (grande chambre) superior court, asserted to have received the largest amount, was composed of one hundred and eighty members.
She had been sentenced by a Superior Court judge in the state, who still serves, to seven years or $750.
Prevost, made judge of the superior court at New Orleans, that I wanted my brother-in-law Joseph Brown made secretary of the Louisiana Territory, that I wanted General James Wilkinson made governor of the Louisiana Territory.
And then they hit the wrong man-a Superior Court judge, Hammer Twist.
And there on the bench is good old Chicano lackey, Superior Court Judge Alfred Alacran.
I will not permit you to disrupt the entire proceedings of the largest superior court in the State of California.
A superior court judge invalidated Basko's twenty-five mill and divided the swag between Gail Curtiz and Linda Claire Woodruff.
Not having been actually enrolled as an attorney, neither the records of the local court at Stratford nor of the superior Court at Westminster would present his name as being concerned in any suit as an attorney, but it might reasonably have been expected that there would be deeds or wills witnessed by him still extant, and after a very diligent search none such can be discovered.
Lieutenant Finque decided to inform them of what he had just heard prior to rollcall: that a Superior Court jury had acquitted a man charged with the murder of a Los Angeles police officer.