Definition of "superior court" []

• A court of general jurisdiction, above the inferior courts and below the higher courts of appeal. (noun)

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• "PAT LALAMA, INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST: Well, first, let me tell you I got off the phone literally three minutes ago with the superior court."
• "For the salary and travelling expenses of the chief justice of the superior court, sixty-five hundred dollars."
• "For the salaries and travelling expenses of the fifteen associate justices of the superior court, ninety thousand dollars."