Terms Used In Tennessee Code 22-2-303

  • 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 several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105

In those counties of the state where the circuit or criminal courts, or both, sit in two (2) places, the jury coordinators for those counties shall be required to select jurors from the territorial jurisdiction of each of the two (2) courts and will maintain two (2) sets of records, one (1) for each of the courts as is provided in this part, the same as if both courts were in separate counties.