Definition of jurisdiction

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"Jurisdiction (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..

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Ordinary :: Ordinary (n.) One who has immediate jurisdiction in matters ecclesiastical; an ecclesiastical judge; also, a deputy of the bishop, or a clergyman appointed to perform divine service for condemned criminals and assist in preparing them for death..
Deanery :: Deanery (n.) The territorial jurisdiction of a dean.
Cadilesker :: Cadilesker (n.) A chief judge in the Turkish empire, so named originally because his jurisdiction extended to the cases of soldiers, who are now tried only by their own officers..
Autocephalous :: Autocephalous (a.) Having its own head; independent of episcopal or patriarchal jurisdiction, as certain Greek churches..
Officialty :: Officialty (n.) The charge, office, court, or jurisdiction of an official..
Court :: Court (n.) Any jurisdiction, civil, military, or ecclesiastical..
Ambulatory :: Ambulatory (a.) Accustomed to move from place to place; not stationary; movable; as, an ambulatory court, which exercises its jurisdiction in different places..
Cognizance :: Cognizance (n.) Jurisdiction, or the power given by law to hear and decide controversies..
Beadlery :: Beadlery (n.) Office or jurisdiction of a beadle.
Polemarch :: Polemarch (n.) In Athens, originally, the military commanderin-chief; but, afterward, a civil magistrate who had jurisdiction in respect of strangers and sojourners. In other Grecian cities, a high military and civil officer..
Proconsulate :: Proconsulate (n.) The office jurisdiction of a proconsul, or the term of his office..
Chancellor :: Chancellor (n.) A judicial court of chancery, which in England and in the United States is distinctively a court with equity jurisdiction..
Leetman :: Leetman (n.) One subject to the jurisdiction of a court-leet.
Regality :: Regality (n.) Royalty; sovereignty; sovereign jurisdiction.
Diocese :: Diocese (n.) The circuit or extent of a bishop's jurisdiction; the district in which a bishop exercises his ecclesiastical authority.
Commissary :: Commissary (n.) An officer of the bishop, who exercises ecclesiastical jurisdiction in parts of the diocese at a distance from the residence of the bishop..
Patriarchdom :: Patriarchdom (n.) The office or jurisdiction of a patriarch; patriarchate.
Absolution :: Absolution (n.) The exercise of priestly jurisdiction in the sacrament of penance, by which Catholics believe the sins of the truly penitent are forgiven..
Prefecture :: Prefecture (n.) The office, position, or jurisdiction of a prefect; also, his official residence..
Verge :: Verge (n.) The compass of the court of Marshalsea and the Palace court, within which the lord steward and the marshal of the king's household had special jurisdiction; -- so called from the verge, or staff, which the marshal bore..
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