Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 27-103

  • 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.
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201

Laws 1876, chapter 87, § 1, included by reference. [The title of the act reads as follows: “An act to cede jurisdiction to the United States over the territory of the Fort Hays military reservation.” The reservation has since been receded to the state and accepted by the state for the purpose of establishing an agricultural experiment station and a branch of the then state normal school “and a public park” by L. 1901, ch. 421. See “state institutions.”]