§ 25-1901.District court; appellate jurisdiction; scope.

Section 25-1901 opens Article 19 by defining the district court’s appellate reach over decisions made below it. Any judgment rendered or final order made by a tribunal, board, or officer that exercises judicial functions and ranks below the district court in jurisdiction may be reversed, vacated, or modified by the district court. That broad grant covers a wide range of inferior decision-makers, not just courts in the traditional sense.

Three categories fall outside that grant. The district court does not have this appellate jurisdiction over appeals from a juvenile court, over appeals from a county court in matters arising under the Nebraska Probate Code or the Nebraska Uniform Trust Code, in matters involving adoption or inheritance tax, or in domestic relations matters, and over appeals that belong within the jurisdiction of the Tax Equalization and Review Commission. Those carve-outs route certain specialized disputes to courts or bodies built to handle them, rather than through the district court’s general error-correcting jurisdiction described here.

This section sets the stage for the sections that follow: the “petition in error” procedure described in sections 25-1903 through 25-1908 is how a party invokes the jurisdiction this section grants.