North Carolina courts
North Carolina runs ONE unified General Court of Justice — one Supreme Court, one Court of Appeals (the opposite of Texas's split), and trial divisions separated by the statutory dollar line. Two wrinkles matter every day: the magistrate hears the small-claims lane (including summary ejectment), and the CLERK of superior court holds real jurisdiction of their own (probate, and the power-of-sale foreclosure hearing).
The appellate tier
Supreme Court of North Carolina
A Chief Justice and six associate justices — ONE court of last resort for everything (no TX-style civil/criminal split).
G.S. 7A-10
Court of Appeals
The intermediate court — created 1967, error correction for the General Court of Justice.
G.S. 7A-16
The trial divisions
Superior Court
The general trial division — civil actions above the statutory line (twenty-five thousand dollars, § 7A-243).
G.S. 7A-243
District Court
Civil at or under the line, family, and the magistrate lane.
G.S. 7A-240 et seq.
Small claims (magistrates)
The § 7A-210 small-claim action — the ejectment engine's forum.
G.S. 7A-210
Business Court
Superior Court's complex-business bench via § 7A-45.4 designation.
G.S. 7A-45.4