Word Finder - jurisdiction

definition

The power, right, or authority to interpret and apply the law.

definition

The power or right to exercise authority.

definition

The power or right to perform some action as part of applying the law.

definition

The authority of a sovereign power to govern or legislate.

definition

The limits or territory within which authority may be exercised.

We have jurisdiction on kidnappings.

It's not even my jurisdiction, even if there was something I could do.

The judges have appellate jurisdiction of cases civil and criminal coming up from the lower courts.

At the same time a supreme court of judicature was appointed, composed of a chief and three puisne judges, to exercise an indeterminate jurisdiction at Calcutta.

After all, it is a murder in your jurisdiction.

The existing fragments tell us little as to the decentralization of the functions of government, but from the Lex Rubria, which applies to the Transpadane districts enfranchised by Caesar (it must be remembered that Cisalpine Gaul remained nominally a province until 42 B.C.) we gather that considerable powers of independent jurisdiction were reserved to the municipal magistrates.

The Cinque Ports from the earliest times claimed to be exempt from the jurisdiction of the admiral of England.

Whether it was the panic in my voice or my description of the facts, Jackson was beginning to realize the seriousness of what might be happening in his jurisdiction.

Actions may be transferred to it, and appeals made to it, from the county courts in all cases arising within the jurisdiction of the Cinque Ports as defined by that act.

Renard thought he would be executed, but so true a Romanist as Mary could scarcely have an ecclesiastic put to death in consequence of a sentence by a secular court, and Cranmer was reserved for treatment as a heretic by the highest of clerical tribunals, which could not act until parliament had restored the papal jurisdiction.

The only original jurisdiction left to the pope was in the case of the matrimonial causes of princes.

I don't think we have any worries that he'll make any public announcements about psychic activities in his jurisdiction.

Even in these the original jurisdiction of the pope was taken away.

Even as to the discipline of the Roman clergy it is only in certain limited cases that one can speak of ecclesiastical jurisdiction.

He vigorously restored Roman Catholicism in his diocese, made no difficulty about submitting to the papal jurisdiction which he had forsworn, and in 1555 began the persecution to which he owes his fame.

This grant was confirmed in 1378 when its extent and jurisdiction were defined.

The British minister demanded from the national government M`Leod's release, but his case was in the New York courts, over which the national government has no jurisdiction.

As to judgment debts, it is sufficient to say that, when by the judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction an order is made that a sum of money be paid by one of two parties to another, such a debt is not only enforceable by process of court, but it can be sued upon as if it were an ordinary debt.

No one save the king had the right of jurisdiction over him, while by a law of Canute we learn that he paid a larger heriot than an ordinary thegn.

Where the archdeacon had a jurisdiction co-ordinate with the bishop, it was called a peculiar.

In 1438 the council of Basel took away all papal original jurisdiction (save in certain reserved cases - of which infra), evocation of causes to Rome, appeals to Rome omisso medio, and appeals to Rome altogether in many causes.

The subject matter over which the ecclesiastical courts had jurisdiction was no longer purely " criminal " with a civil quasijurisdiction by way of arbitration.

In the later middle ages these courts had jurisdiction over most questions, except indeed the then most important ones, those relating to real property.

This jurisdiction was exclusive.

But as to personal property, the jurisdiction of the courts Christian became exclusive in England.

This right and duty became a jurisdiction in all testamentary causes.

If undoubtedly held in frankalmoign or " free alms," by a " spiritual " tenure only, the claim of jurisdiction for the ecclesiastical forum seems to have been at first conceded.

As to the title to present to benefices, the courts Christian at one time had concurrent jurisdiction with the temporal courts.

In regard to the execution of these promises, the jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical courts was possibly traversed by c. 15 of the Constitutions of Clarendon; but allowed by the statute 13 Edw.

In regard to " clerks," there was (1) all the criminal jurisdiction which existed over laymen, and (2) criminal jurisdiction in regard to professional misconduct.

Testamentary causes at first were subject to the concurrent jurisdiction of the spiritual and secular courts.

The voluntary jurisdiction as regards dispensations was kept for the Church.

In regard to crimes delicts (delits) were divided into classes for purposes of jurisdiction.

At any rate the " original " jurisdiction claimed for the monarch personally and his delegates, under Henry VIII.

In this reign and the next, temporal courts were sometimes given jurisdiction over purely spiritual offences.

In regard to moral offences, jurisdiction under this act is exclusive.

The Concordat of 1856 and consequent legislation restored matrimonial jurisdiction to the courts Christian over marriages between Roman Catholics.

In exempt convents the head of the monastery or priory exercised jurisdiction subject to an appeal to the pope.

Hence came the ' jurisdiction of the ordinary in intestacy, for the peace of the soul of the departed.

Concerning " felonious " clerks the great questions discussed were whether the courts Christian had exclusive jurisdiction or the king's court, or whether there was a concurrent jurisdiction.

In the cases of heresy, apostasy and sorcery, the spiritual courts sought the aid of the secular jurisdiction to superadd the punishment of death.

The subject matter of ecclesiastical jurisdiction has been gradually reduced in England, &c., by various causes.

Matrimonial jurisdiction was taken from the bishop of Sodor and Man in 1884.

The existing ecclesiastical jurisdiction in England is therefore now confined to the following points.

In the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands courts Christian have now jurisdiction substantially as in England.

The governing synod now sits at St Petersburg, but appoints delegated commissions, with a portion of its jurisdiction, in Moscow and Georgia.

The Holy Synod possesses the metropolitical jurisdiction.

The subject matter of the jurisdiction of Hellenic courts Christian seems to be confined to strictly spiritual discipline, mainly in regard to the professional misconduct of the clergy.

The bishop's consistorial court, consisting of himself and four priests, has a limited jurisdiction in first instance.

Another region so called is that part of the Sahara washed by the Atlantic. The name is also used to designate the territory under French jurisdiction west of Timbuktu and north of the Senegal.