Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

concurrent jurisdiction

1 Jurisdiction exercised simultaneously by more than one court over the same subject matter and within the same territory, with the litigant having the right to choose the court in which to file the action. 2. Jurisdiction shared by two or more states, esp. over the physical boundaries (such as rivers or other bodies of water) between them. - Also termed coordinate jurisdiction; overlapping jurisdiction. Cf. exclusive jurisdiction "In several cases, two States divided by a river exercise concurrent jurisdiction over the river, no matter where the inter-state boundary may be; in some cases by the Ordinance of 1787 for organizing Territories northwest of the Ohio River, in some cases by Acts of Congress organizing Territories or admitting States, and in some cases by agreements between the States concerned." 1 Joseph H. Beale, A Treatise on the Conflict of Laws § 44.3, at 279 (1935).