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Terms Used In Iowa Code 633.14

  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
633.14 Concurrent jurisdiction.
When a case is originally within the jurisdiction of the courts of two or more counties, the court which first takes cognizance of the case by the commencement of the proceedings shall retain jurisdiction throughout the case.
[C51, §1274; R60, §2306; C73, §2318; C97, §3264; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §11824; C46, 50, 54,
58, 62, §631.6; C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §633.14]
2020 Acts, ch 1063, §334