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civil court
A court restricted to civil monetary claims, excluding courts limited specifically to small claims.
A civil court is a court of law whose jurisdiction is limited to civil cases, involving monetary claims. If the court is limited to cases involving small amounts of money, it should be classified as a small claims court.
The jurisdiction concerns monetary disputes between parties. This describes the specified court use rather than every possible remedy available in civil law.
A court confined to small monetary claims has the separate small-claims meaning. No common monetary threshold is imposed across legal systems.
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