lower court jurisdiction
original court jurisdiction

In the Middle Ages, lower court jurisdiction was exercised through the Valwig-Ernst court.

Well, it's a little less clear, with conflicting decisions in lower court jurisdictions and with a great deal of murkiness as to what constitutes student-initiated prayer as distinguished from school-sponsored prayer.

"Lest we forget, Congress did not even have to create inferior Federal courts," Justice Scalia said, let alone give the lower courts jurisdiction to hear habeas corpus petitions from state inmates.