In Belgium
The County court is composed of three sections:
The civil courts (civil Court)
The civil Court deals with all the relative files with the state of people (divorce, adoption, filiation, etc) Its competences extend to matters as varied as the businesses from an higher amount with: 1860 euros, royalties, successions, the call of judgments of the Justice of the Peace,…
The Criminal Courts (Magistrates' court)
The Magistrates' court is a penal jurisdiction charged to repress correctionnalized offenses and crimes. It acts as appelate jurisdiction for the decisions taken by the police court.
Rooms of youth (Court of youth)
The Court of youth treats in particular files which relate to the law on the protection of youth.Plenary formation being exception
In France
Currently
With Mayotte, in French Polynesia, New Caledonia, with Saint-Pierre-and-Miquelon and Wallis-and-Futuna, the county court has attributions similar to those of the magistrates' courts and Courts of Bankruptcy which one finds in the remainder of the France. It delivers extracts of Police records to the people born in these communities.
In New Caledonia, as regards Common law, it sits in a training including/understanding of the usual assessors.
Formerly
The name of county court was given to the courts of districts instituted by the Loi of the August 16th and 24th 1790 when they judged in the first resort.
With the reform of the Year VIII which establishes courts of call, the county courts become the jurisdictions of common right civil matter. This organization remains until 1958.
Europe
See the article County court of the European Communities.
With Monaco
See the article County court (Monaco).
In Cameroun
The jurisdiction ratione loci of the county court extends to the department. The county court is qualified:
- out of penal matter: for the judgment of any infringement except for the crimes;
- out of civil, commercial and social matter when the amount of the request does not exceed by five hundred and thousand francs (500.000 FCFA);
- to rule on the procedures in summary procedure and ordinance on request;
- for the recovery of the commercial debts by simplified procedures.
Any business subjected to the county court is judged by only one magistrate, except on social matters.
See too
External bonds
- County court of Belgian Monaco
- County court on Wikinations.be
- the Legal Organization in French Polynesia, Patrick Michaux
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