The National Hockey League was established in 1917 as the successor to the National Hockey Association (NHA). Founded in 1909, the NHA began play one year later with seven teams in Ontario and Quebec, and was one of the first major leagues in professional ice hockey.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. A court of general jurisdiction is one that has the authority to hear cases of all kinds-criminal, civil, family, probate, and so forth. All federal courts are courts of limited jurisdiction.
In the law of the United States , diversity jurisdiction is a form of subject-matter jurisdiction in civil procedure in which a United States district court in the federal judiciary has the power to hear a civil case where the persons that are parties are  diverse  in citizenship , which generally indicates that they are citizens of different ...