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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 37-1-212

  • 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.

The judge is authorized and empowered to make and promulgate rules and regulations for the administration of the court, to fix the times and places at which all persons in the jurisdiction of the court shall have their causes set for hearing.