<P> In England and Wales, the Court of Appeal, the High Court and the Crown Court, altogether form the Senior Courts of England and Wales, are all superior courts of record . </P> <P> The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council is the final forum for several independent Commonwealth nations as well as all Overseas Territories of the United Kingdom and Crown Dependencies, and thus is the superior court in its capacity as the final appellate court of the respective legal systems . </P> <P> In a number of jurisdictions in the United States, the Superior Court is a state trial court of general jurisdiction with power to hear and decide any civil or criminal action which is not specially designated to be heard in some other courts . California, Connecticut, Washington, Maine, the District of Columbia, and Georgia are all examples of such jurisdictions . In other states, equivalent courts are also known as courts of common pleas (Pennsylvania, Ohio, and others), circuit courts (Illinois, Michigan, Oregon and others), district courts (Louisiana, Texas, Hawaii and others) or, in the case of New York, supreme courts . </P> <P> The term "superior court" raises the obvious question of superior to what . Formerly, many jurisdictions had inferior trial courts of limited jurisdiction such as municipal courts, traffic courts, and justice of the peace courts, so it was natural to call the next level of courts "superior ." However, some states, like California, have unified their court systems . In California, all lower courts were absorbed into the Superior Courts of California after 1998 . The lower courts now exist only as mere administrative subdivisions of the superior courts . The superior courts are legally no longer superior to any other trial courts . Thus, the term "superior court" persists in California only as a matter of tradition . Similarly, the Superior Court of the District of Columbia is the sole local trial court, and what would be inferior courts are divisions of that court . </P>

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