Is appellate court and appellate jurisdiction the same thing?

to correct legal errors made in lower courts

(in the US) there is no such court officially designated "The Intermediate Appellate Court," there is no such jurisdiction. The US Courts of Appeals Circuit Courts and their state equivalents (one...

Lower Courts or District Courts. In a nutshell original jurisdicition, the first to claim power, is given to Supreme court because those guys are big. But the lower courts first get the case and if...

In the United States, all courts have appellate jurisdiction except the trial courts. The federal court system is divided into three layers. First is the US District Court (trial court) hears the...

All article III federal (constitutional) courts, except lower courts of limited jurisdiction (for example, the Court of International Trade), have appellate jurisdiction. Although US District Courts...