!!!Landesgerichte

Courts, Provincial (Austrian name: Landesgerichte), are courts of 
first instance. There are 18 provincial courts, of which there is one 
in every provincial capital (in Vorarlberg it is at Feldkirch); like 
the Bezirksgerichte (district courts) they have original jurisdiction 
over certain matters; they are commercial courts for commercial cases, 
except for Vienna, where there is a special commercial court; they 
also act as labour and social courts for labour and social cases, 
again except for Vienna, where there is a special labour and social 
court; in Vienna and Graz there are separate provincial courts for 
civil and criminal cases. Provincial courts are also courts of appeal 
for Bezirksgerichte (district courts) sitting as commercial courts for 
commercial matters, the one exception is Vienna, where the court of 
second instance is the commercial court of Vienna.


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