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Jurisdictional amount

Term · Law · MLC-T-LAW-002858

The minimum or maximum monetary value of a dispute that a particular court is authorized to hear. This threshold determines whether a case falls within the financial limits of a court's subject matter jurisdiction. For example, small claims courts have a lower jurisdictional amount than general civil courts.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-LAW-002858
FieldLaw
Record as JSON 
{
  "id": "MLC-T-LAW-002858",
  "term": "Jurisdictional amount",
  "field": "Law",
  "definition": "The minimum or maximum monetary value of a dispute that a particular court is authorized to hear. This threshold determines whether a case falls within the financial limits of a court's subject matter jurisdiction. For example, small claims courts have a lower jurisdictional amount than general civil courts.",
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/law/jurisdictional-amount/"
}

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