noun
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The enacting part of a statute.
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The scope of a statute.
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Scope or range of interest or control.
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Range of understanding.
Examples of purview in a Sentence
More serious cases come within the purview of the an-sat, a judicial auxiliary of the governor.
What happened was outside of Gabe's official purview.
He was also appointed on a Royal Commission to inquire into Irish university education, including Trinity College, an institution which had been excluded from the purview of former commissions.
The island is treated as an outlying territory; it has not been brought within the full purview of the Japanese constitution.
Debates about citizenship and education are not the sole purview of academics.
Science can shed light on the issues involved, but good and evil are not within the purview of science.
It will also have exclusive purview over the detention and repatriation of those guilty of human smuggling.
Indeed this case implicates issues of policy, politics and culture that go beyond the purview of one nation 's judiciary '.
These terms of reference should encompass all matters falling within the purview of the local authority on spectator safety.
In another view, such territory is foreign only in the sense that it is not within the purview of the majority of statutes (see Hall's International Law, 6th ed., 126, Heilborn, 535; Tupper's Indian Protectorates, 336; Laband, 2, § 70).
Pinker thinks there is no ' ghost in the machine ' outside of the purview of physical laws.
This is perhaps a reflection of a 'master storyline ' that assumes international standard-setting activities are almost solely the purview of larger organizations.
Any other tasks within the purview of the post as delegated by the Head Teacher or nominee.
The Hawaiian Islands came within the purview of George Vancouver, following the course of Cook in 1791.
The epistemological problem as such was out of the purview.
If the cemetery is private or part of a church, the records may be under the purview of a caretaker or in the church records.