County court

However it should be understood that there are County Court buildings and courtrooms throughout England and Wales, not one single location.

Civil matters in England (with minor exceptions, e.g. in some actions against the police) do not have juries.

For personal injury, defamation, and some landlord-tenant dispute cases the thresholds for each track have different values.

Judgments can be enforced at the request of the claimant in a number of ways, including requesting the court bailiffs to seize goods, the proceeds of any sale being used to pay the debt, or an Attachment of Earnings Order, where the defendant's employer is ordered to make deductions from the gross wages to pay the claimant.

If the debt was not fully paid within the statutory period, the entry will remain for six full years.

They hear indictable (serious) criminal offences except for treason, murder, and manslaughter.

In Northern Ireland there are seven county courts, following the same model as those of England and Wales before unification in 2014.

Many United States states have a county court system which, least common, may be purely administrative (such as in Missouri), focused primarily on registration of properties and deeds, or, most often, may have jurisdiction over civil cases such as lawsuits and criminal courts and jails (such as in New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, et cetera) where trials from misdemeanors to felony cases are centered about a common jail system managed by the county sheriffs departments.

With the growth of the largest cities, many large urban centers have subsumed whole or most of counties within the unofficial or official municipal borders, blurring the distinction between the types of government and their jurisdictions in the mind of the common inhabitant, but even television police drama's occasionally point out a county function (coroners, sheriffs, jails, courts, probation departments) different from a metropolis' police agencies, city governments, and district attorney's (prosecutors) offices (politically elected or appointed in most of the United States).

In those states with an administrative county court, the body acts as the executive agency for the local government.

In Florida's four-tiered court system, the lower two tiers split original jurisdiction for both criminal and civil matters.

It has exclusive authority to handle trials in felony matters and shares authority with the local city, town and village courts to handle trials in misdemeanor cases (offenses punishable by less than one year in prison) and other minor offenses and violations.

The County Court also has limited authority to hear civil cases involving monetary awards of $25,000 or less.

Civil bills are still used as the initiation document for Circuit Court/county court claims in both Irish jurisdictions, unlike in England and Wales.