Texas Water Code 51.025 – Single-County District: Judgment of District Court; Appeal
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(a) In the appeal, the district court shall apply to the determination its full powers to the end that substantial justice may be done.
(b) An appeal from the judgment of the district court may be taken as in other civil causes, but appeals filed under § 51.022 of this code shall be given precedence on the docket of any higher court over all causes which are not of similar public concern.
Terms Used In Texas Water Code 51.025
- Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
- Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
- 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.
- Justice: when applied to a magistrate, means justice of the peace. See Texas Government Code 312.011
(c) The final judgment of the district court, or other court to which an appeal may be prosecuted, shall be certified and transmitted to the clerk of the commissioners court with all original documents and processes which were transmitted from the commissioners court to the district court on appeal.
(d) The commissioners court shall enter its order on the petition to conform to the decree entered by the court of final jurisdiction and shall enter other and further orders as may be required by law to execute the intent of the certified decree.