District Court
a court having cognizance of cases arising within a certain defined district, more specifically as described below. In 1920 the United States was divided into 106 districts for judicial purposes, each State in the Union containing at least one district, and some of them more. For each district there are a judge, a district attorney, a marshal, and deputy marshals. They constitute the officers of the district courts. These tribunals have charge of the initial administration of justice in cases of offense against the Federal Government, and form a link in the judicial succession that culminates in the Supreme Court of the United States, being as it were the Federal courts of common pleas.