Terms Used In North Carolina General Statutes 141-7.1

  • 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.

The lateral seaward boundary between North Carolina and South Carolina from the low-water mark of the Atlantic Ocean shall be and is hereby designated as a continuation of the North Carolina-South Carolina boundary line as described by monuments located at Latitude 33° 51′ 50.7214″ North, Longitude 78° 33′ 22.9448″ West, at Latitude 33° 51′ 36.4626″ North, Longitude 78° 33′ 06.1937″ West, and at Latitude 33° 51′ 07.8792″ North, Longitude 78° 32′ 32.6210″ West, in a straight line projection of said line to the seaward limits of the States’ territorial jurisdiction, such line to be extended on the same bearing insofar as a need for further delimitation may arise. (1979, c. 894; 1981, c. 744.)