Judicial district

In texts concerning Austria, "judicial district" (German: Gerichtsbezirk) refers to the geographical area under the jurisdiction of a district court, the lowest-level kind of court.

The rule that courts are only responsible in matters within their legal districts, however, must not be over-represented.

Depending on the size of its population, each comarca could have from a single judicial court of generic competence to a complex structure of diverse courts of specific competences (civil, criminal, criminal procedure, labor, family, etc.).

Portugal is now divided in 23 larger comarcas, all of them having, each one, a single generic competence judicial court of first instance.

For the purpose of the federal judiciary, each state is organized into between one and four judicial districts, which may be further subdivided into divisions.