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Earldom :: Earldom (n.) The jurisdiction of an earl; the territorial possessions of an earl.

Exterritorial :: Exterritorial (a.) Beyond the territorial limits; foreign to, or exempt from, the territorial jurisdiction..

Fuero :: Fuero (n.) The jurisdiction of a tribunal.

Outlaw :: Outlaw (v. t.) To remove from legal jurisdiction or enforcement; as, to outlaw a debt or claim; to deprive of legal force..

Waywodeship :: Waywodeship (n.) The office, province, or jurisdiction of a waywode..

Collection :: Collection (n.) The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.

Cognizance :: Cognizance (n.) Jurisdiction, or the power given by law to hear and decide controversies..

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..

Chorepiscopus :: Chorepiscopus (n.) A country or suffragan bishop, appointed in the ancient church by a diocesan bishop to exercise episcopal jurisdiction in a rural district..

Legation :: Legation (n.) A district under the jurisdiction of a legate.

Colony :: Colony (n.) A company of people transplanted from their mother country to a remote province or country, and remaining subject to the jurisdiction of the parent state; as, the British colonies in America..

Electorate :: Electorate (n.) The territory, jurisdiction, or dignity of an elector, as in the old German empire..

Viceroyalty :: Viceroyalty (n.) The dignity, office, or jurisdiction of a viceroy..

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..

Stewish :: Stewartry (n.) In Scotland, the jurisdiction of a steward; also, the lands under such jurisdiction..

Tetrarchy :: Tetrarchy (n.) The district under a Roman tetrarch; the office or jurisdiction of a tetrarch; a tetrarchate.

Admiralty :: Admiralty (n.) The office or jurisdiction of an admiral.

Prefectship :: Prefectship (n.) The office or jurisdiction of a prefect.

Autocephalous :: Autocephalous (a.) Having its own head; independent of episcopal or patriarchal jurisdiction, as certain Greek churches..

Judicature :: Judicature (n.) The right of judicial action; jurisdiction; extent jurisdiction of a judge or court.

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