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    jurisdiction


    1. committed under his jurisdiction


    2. Knights over the jurisdiction of heresy charges


    3. Although the Duke held no jurisdiction in Troyes, he would


    4. are now outside the diocese and have no jurisdiction here


    5. ‘There's no way he could act beyond the jurisdiction


    6. ‘This falls within the jurisdiction of the Church, Bailli,


    7. Dominicans interfering within his jurisdiction and, in the


    8. In the disorderly times which gave birth to those barbarous institutions, the great proprietor was sufficiently employed in defending his own territories, or in extending his jurisdiction and authority over those of his neighbours


    9. It might, probably, be necessary to grant to such towns as were admitted to farm their own revenues, some sort of compulsive jurisdiction to oblige their own citizens to make payment


    10. One was to erect a new order of jurisdiction, by establishing magistrates and a town-council in every considerable town of his demesnes

    11. The authority and jurisdiction of the Saxon lords in England appear to have been as great before the Conquest as that of any of the Norman lords after it


    12. "Fallhalt and Waterchester fall into the jurisdiction of the Oakneil outpost, while the other ones fall into Ravenwey Burrows outpost's


    13. We've had a total of 8 consecutive encounters in the jurisdiction of the Ravenwey outpost and 9 consecutive ones in the jurisdiction of the Oakneil outpost, which means our rat moved again between the outposts


    14. The mother city, though she considered the colony as a child, at all times entitled to great favour and assistance, and owing in return much gratitude and respect, yet considered it as an emancipated child, over whom she pretended to claim no direct authority or jurisdiction


    15. She assigned them lands generally in the conquered provinces of Italy, where, being within the dominions of the republic, they could never form any independent state, but were at best but a sort of corporation, which, though it had the power of enacting bye-laws for its own government, was at all times subject to the correction, jurisdiction, and legislative authority of the mother city


    16. The thousand men whom he thus maintains, depending entirely upon him for their subsistence, must both obey his orders in war, and submit to his jurisdiction in peace


    17. In the Tartar governments of Asia, in the governments of Europe which were founded by the German and Scythian nations who overturned the Roman empire, the administration of justice was a considerable source of revenue, both to the sovereign, and to all the lesser chiefs or lords who exercised under him any particular jurisdiction, either over some particular tribe or clan, or over some particular territory or district


    18. Originally, both the sovereign and the inferior chiefs used to exercise this jurisdiction in their own persons


    19. This substitute, however, was still obliged to account to his principal or constituent for the profits of the jurisdiction


    20. Each court endeavoured to draw to itself as much business as it could, and was, upon that account, willing to take cognizance of many suits which were not originally intended to fall under its jurisdiction

    21. 44), not only Senegal and its dependencies, but the whole coast, from the port of Sallee, in South Barbary, to Cape Rouge, was exempted from the jurisdiction of that company, was vested in the crown, and the trade to it declared free to all his majesty's subjects


    22. But that board seems to have no direct jurisdiction over the committee, nor any authority to correct those whose conduct it may thus inquire into; and the captains of his majesty's navy, besides, are not supposed to be always deeply learned in the science of fortification


    23. The court of the Mayor of Calcutta, originally instituted for the trial of mercantile causes, which arose in the city and neighbourlood, had gradually extended its jurisdiction with the extension of the empire


    24. An extraneous jurisdiction of this kind, besides, is liable to be exercised both ignorantly and capriciously


    25. The person subject to such jurisdiction is necessarily degraded by it, and, instead of being one of the most respectable, is rendered one of the meanest and most contemptible persons in the society


    26. Whoever has attended for any considerable time to the administration of a French university, must have had occasion to remark the effects which naturally result from an arbitrary and extraneous jurisdiction of this kind


    27. They were founded by the authority of the pope; and were so entirely under his immediate protection, that their members, whether masters or students, had all of them what was then called the benefit of clergy, that is, were exempted from the civil jurisdiction of the countries in which their respective universities were situated, and were amenable only to the ecclesiastical tribunals


    28. The teachers had no jurisdiction over their pupils, nor any other authority besides that natural authority which superior virtue and abilities never fail to procure from young people towards those who are entrusted with any part of their education


    29. The privileges of the clergy in those ancient times (which to us, who live in the present times, appear the most absurd), their total exemption from the secular jurisdiction, for example, or what in England was called the benefit ofclergy, were the natural, or rather the necessary, consequences of this state of things


    30. ecclesiastical jurisdiction in the parish

    31. DPPs head the respective regional jurisdictions, which are attached to the high courts of the country and all the public prosecutors and state advocates manning the district, regional and high courts report to the DPPs in their respective areas of jurisdiction


    32. State and local authorities quickly hand over jurisdiction and work in cooperation with the federal government


    33. The FBI has jurisdiction over the murder of any federal agents


    34. She made a mental note to phone and have Mike take care of him yet, still managed to answer Caroline with a laugh that what she had done was her secret but, she continued with a wry smile, should Caroline have any needs within the jurisdiction of the Port Authority, she could help


    35. That meant that he was back in the UK and MI5 had complete jurisdiction over everything in the UK


    36. He decided that he would trespass on the homicide division’s jurisdiction, and investigate the murder himself


    37. They’re way out of their jurisdiction


    38. As far as I’m concerned, you’re way out of your jurisdiction


    39. “But why were they so far out of their jurisdiction?” asked Clive


    40. “That is, if you overlook the significant factor that they were a hundred and twenty parsecs out of their jurisdiction,” Weo said

    41. proposal from the UN which would place all of the oceans of the world under UN jurisdiction and would


    42. “He was under our jurisdiction,” says Tori


    43. “Number Forty-five: Give the World Court jurisdiction over nations and individuals


    44. overruled Supreme Court Chief Justice Marshall, who wrote that the states (in this case Georgia) had no jurisdiction over the tribes (in this case the Cherokee), who in turn enjoyed a relationship with the federal government, as “a ward has to a guardian


    45. Honey: To be naturally sugary; not to be offered at the alter; strength; jurisdiction with change; wisdom; Spirit of God; the abiding anointing; the


    46. Name: Notability; designate; rank or status; individualism; jurisdiction; notoriety; personage; look up what the name means; could be about the


    47. Either way, the choice is under my jurisdiction, not the captain’s or the Emperor’s, though we will behave in a civil manner over the affair,” I said


    48. This means that he falls under my jurisdiction now, and no longer that of the Empire,” I said


    49. Here the Supreme Court was asked to try Marbury’s case as a matter of original jurisdiction, as an ordinary trial court would


    50. The Constitution grants original jurisdiction to the Supreme Court in a few cases, but those do not include the type of dispute at issue in Marbury’s case














































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    Synonyms for "jurisdiction"

    jurisdiction legal power department administration dominion station office business

    "jurisdiction" definitions

    (law) the right and power to interpret and apply the law


    in law; the territory within which power can be exercised