The Provincial and Territorial Courts in Canada are local trial "inferior" or "lower" courts of limited jurisdiction established in each of the provinces and territories of Canada. Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page A court is a forum used by a power base to adjudicate disputes and dispense civil, labour administrative and criminal Justice under its The provinces and territories of Canada combine to make up the world's second largest country in total area. These courts typically hear criminal, civil (or “small claims”), family, traffic, and bylaw cases. The term criminal law, sometimes called penal law, refers to any of various bodies of rules in different Jurisdictions whose common characteristic is the potential Small claims courts are Courts of limited jurisdiction that hear civil cases between private litigants Family law is an area of the Law that deals with family-related issues and Domestic relations including but not limited to the nature of Traffic court is a term that refers to a Municipality 's specialized judicial process for handling Traffic ticket cases A bylaw (sometimes also spelled by-law or byelaw) most commonly refers to a city or municipal law or ordinance passed under the authority of a Charter A legal case is a dispute between opposing parties resolved by a Court, or by some equivalent legal process Unlike the superior courts of Canada, the jurisdiction of the Provincial Courts is limited to those matters which are permitted by statute. In Common law systems a superior court is a Court of general Competence which typically has unlimited Jurisdiction with regard to civil and They have no inherent jurisdiction. Inherent Jurisdiction is a doctrine of the English Common law that a Superior court has the Jurisdiction to hear any matter that comes before Appeals of Provincial Court decisions are usually heard by the superior court of the province.
These courts typically evolved from older magistrate, municipal, or local courts. A magistrate is a judicial officer In Common law systems a magistrate usually has limited authority to administer and enforce the Law. A township (or Municipality) is a settlement which has the status and powers of a unit of local government Many of these former courts were as likely to have lay magistrates or justices of the peace presiding as they were to have a judge who had formal legal training. A Justice of the Peace ( JP) is a Puisne Judicial officer appointed by means of a commission to keep the peace A judge, or justice, is an Official who presides over a Court of law Law is a system of rules enforced through a set of Institutions used as an instrument to underpin civil obedience politics economics and society