Inventory of county records, Kendall County Courthouse, Boerne, Texas Page: 4
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court at the county level made appointments in probate matters,
while the District Court was responsible for probate administration.
In 1846 the State Legislature created probate courts in the
established counties and granted sole probate jurisdiction to these
courts. Two years later the Legislature created county courts,
with administrative as well as probate jurisdiction, to replace
the probate courts. The Constitution of 1866 created county courts
exercising jurisdiction in misdemeanor, probate, and civil cases
where the amount in controversy did not exceed $500. While this
Reconstruction Constitution was rejected by the United States Congress,
several Texas counties organized the courts and heard cases
for several years. The federally approved Constitution of 1869
abolished the county courts and transferred their jurisdiction to
the district courts until changes were effected in 1876.14
DISTRICT CLERK
According to the Constitution, the State is to be divided into
as many judicial districts as may be provided by law.l The District
Court has jurisdiction in
all criminal cases of the grade of felony; in
all suits in behalf of the State to recover
penalties, forfeitures and escheats; of all
cases of divorce; of all misdemeanors involving
official misconduct; of all suits to recover
damages for slander or defamation of character;
of all suits for trial of title to land and for
the enforcement of liens thereon; of all suits
for the trial of the right of property levied
upon by virtue of any writ of execution, sequestration
or attachment when the property
levied on shall be equal to or exceed in value
five hundred dollars; of all suits, complaints
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Riney, James E.; Fortin, Maurice G.; Clarke, Joe K. & Marmion, Daniel. Inventory of county records, Kendall County Courthouse, Boerne, Texas, book, 1981; Denton, Tex.. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth25200/m1/16/: accessed May 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.