Courts of limited jurisdiction had power on certain types of cases only and they are divided into matters such as family matters in which a divorce case would most likely be assigned.
Jurisdiction is the power given to a court to decide over a matter, this power can not be taken away or changed and if the courts had no jurisdiction over the case, they are not able to decide the controversy.
The message of "the monkey's paw" is to be careful for what you wish for. The author gets the message across to the reader by showing us the negative consequences of the wishes characters make
He was a white Massachusetts abolitionist & suffragist. He & Isaac Knapp created the newspaper "The Liberator" which aided in the abolition of slavery. He later in life created The American Anti-Slavery Society.
The U.S. judiciary features a dual court system comprising a federal court system and the courts in each of the fifty states. On both the federal and state sides, the U.S. Supreme Court is at the top and is the final court of appeal.