Terms Used In Missouri Laws 541.170

  • 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 any of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" includes such district and territories. See Missouri Laws 1.020

Wherever the St. Francis River or the meanderings of said river border on or form the boundary lines between any county in the state of Missouri and the state of Arkansas, the state of Arkansas shall have concurrent jurisdiction of all violations of the criminal laws of the state of Arkansas to the east boundary of the meandering lines of the St. Francis River.