The provisions of this chapter apply to the district court, to municipal courts and to the common pleas court of Detroit, except as otherwise provided in statutes and supreme court rules specifically applicable to these courts.

     All matters relating to the organization and financing of courts of limited jurisdiction or to the selection, terms, compensation, and duties of their judges and other officers and personnel and to limitations on jurisdiction shall be governed by the statutes respectively applicable to the courts. In all other matters of civil jurisdiction, including pleadings and motions, forms of action, joinder of claims and parties, issuance, service and enforcement of writs, subpoenas and other process, contempts, taxation of costs, and entry and enforcement of judgments, the municipal and common pleas courts shall also be governed by statutes and supreme court rules applicable to the district court, except where the provisions conflict with the provisions of statutes or supreme court rules specifically applicable to the municipal or common pleas courts. In the statutes specifically applicable to municipal or common pleas courts, all references to the powers or proceedings of justice courts or justices of the peace in matters of civil jurisdiction shall be construed to refer to the powers or proceedings of the district court or district court judges.

     Courts of limited jurisdiction shall have jurisdiction in all civil actions at law against school districts, when the amount claimed or matter in controversy is within their respective jurisdictional limits.

     Except as otherwise provided or limited in statutes specifically applicable to courts of limited jurisdiction, the courts have jurisdiction over actions at law, including statutory actions and remedies which are not equitable in nature, when the amount claimed or the matter in controversy does not exceed the jurisdictional limits applicable in the courts. Forms of action are abolished and there is 1 form of action known as a civil action.

     In every municipal court retained after the establishment of the district court pursuant to sections 9928 and 9930, a verdict in a civil action tried by a jury of 6 shall be received when 5 jurors agree.

     In every appeal from a district, municipal, or common pleas court, the appellant shall pay to the clerk of the trial court the taxable costs of the prevailing party, together with $25.00.

     A municipal court shall have original jurisdiction over civil infraction actions involving civil infractions occurring within its jurisdiction.