Jurisdiction
[,dʒʊərɪs'dɪkʃ(ə)n] or [,dʒʊrɪs'dɪkʃən]
Definition
(noun.) in law; the territory within which power can be exercised.
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Definition
(a.) The legal power, right, or authority of a particular court to hear and determine causes, to try criminals, or to execute justice; judicial authority over a cause or class of causes; as, certain suits or actions, or the cognizance of certain crimes, are within the jurisdiction of a particular court, that is, within the limits of its authority or commission.
(a.) The authority of a sovereign power to govern or legislate; the right of making or enforcing laws; the power or right of exercising authority.
(a.) Sphere of authority; the limits within which any particular power may be exercised, or within which a government or a court has authority.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Judicature, extent of authority, legal power.
Checker: Rupert
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Administration, cognizance, government, control, sway, power, legalization,magistracy, liability
ANT:Freedom, independence, Immunity, exemption
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Definition
n. the distribution of justice: legal authority: extent of power: district over which any authority extends.—adjs. Jurisdic′tional Jurisdic′tive.
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Examples
- Smith, embracing the mouths of the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers, had been added to my jurisdiction. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- An extraneous jurisdiction of this kind, besides, is liable to be exercised both ignorantly and capriciously. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- One was to erect a new order of jurisdiction, by establishing magistrates and a town-council in every considerable town of his demesnes. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Now, I find there's a little one out--a mere Palace Court jurisdiction--and I have reason to believe that a caption may be made upon that. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Only the Earl himself kept up a sly occasional acquaintance with her, when out of the jurisdiction of his ladies. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- This substitute, however, was still obliged to account to his principal or constituent for the profits of the jurisdiction. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- We plowed along bravely for a week or more, and without any conflict of jurisdiction among the captains worth mentioning. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Originally, both the sovereign and the inferior chiefs used to exercise this jurisdiction in their own persons. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The clergy were to be freed from lay jurisdiction and from taxation, and exemplary cruelties were to be practised upon the heretics. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- MICAWBER, and the defendant in that cause is the prey of the sheriff having legal jurisdiction in this bailiwick. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Texas, as an independent State, never had exercised jurisdiction over the territory between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The laws of England, interrupted Beaumanoir, permit and enjoin each judge to execute justice within his own jurisdiction. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- We are out of its jurisdiction. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Their country has no jurisdiction in foreign nations, and therefore can seldom procure them any monopoly there. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The Conqueror bestowed it on William de Warren, with all its privileges and jurisdiction, which are said to have extended over twenty-eight towns. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- It is a mistake to imagine that those territorial jurisdictions took their origin from the feudal law. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- That authority, and those jurisdictions, all necessarily flowed from the state of property and manners just now described. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- In other countries, much greater and more extensive jurisdictions were frequently granted to them. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
Editor: Sasha