Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 77-137

  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • 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

Before any copies of a volume of said Kansas Statutes Annotated shall be printed and bound, they shall be examined and compared by the secretary of state and by the attorney general, and if they contain all the laws required by this act, and otherwise comply with the terms of this act, they shall so certify in writing, and after such authentication they shall be deemed and held to be the official statutes of Kansas, and evidence in all courts having jurisdiction. Such authentication shall be printed in each volume of said statutes. In any legislative bill to amend or repeal any law or section in such volume or supplementation thereof, authorized by law, it shall be sufficient to refer to the same by running section numbers of said volume.