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Area where a particular court has jurisdiction
In
Spain
, a
judicial district
(
Spanish
:
Partido judicial
) is a territorial unit for the administration of justice, composed of one or more
municipalities
bordering and within the same
province
.
One of the municipalities that make up the judicial district, usually the largest or the one that deals with the highest number of legal matters, is the seat of one or more courts of first instance and instruction. The remaining municipalities of the district have
magistrates' courts
.
In addition to their primary function, judicial districts are also the constituencies for the election of
provincial councils
.
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The first division that was done in Spain on legal grounds would be during the
Roman Empire
. The provinces are divided into conventus where the inhabitants of the district regularly met in the header to resolve legal issues. The people could go to either conventus according to their convenience and the distance that separated them, that is why the boundaries were unclear.
The first modern division of Spain in judicial districts was held in 1834 -through an approved Decree 21 April 1834 in which provinces- subdivided following the new provincial management of
Javier de Burgos
. Among the motivations employment decree games constituency in the elections to Parliament of the Kingdom, was and facilitates faster receivership. 1 in 1834 were recorded in
Spain
, except the provinces provincial, a total of 451 matches judicial
[nota 1]
.
Currently the number of these, variable throughout history, has been reduced. These divisions would be the basis for electoral districts and contribution. In 1868 there were 463 judicial districts and 8,000 municipalities. The judicial districts of the autonomous cities of
Ceuta
and
Melilla
are the 12th (
Cadiz
) and the 8th (
Malaga
).
Spain is currently divided into 432 judicial districts.
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