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Landgraviate :: Landgraviate (n.) The office, jurisdiction, or authority of a landgrave..

Patriarchate :: Patriarchate (n.) The office, dignity, or jurisdiction of a patriarch..

Wardenship :: Wardenship (n.) The office or jurisdiction of a warden.

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..

Earl Marshal :: Earl marshal () An officer of state in England who marshals and orders all great ceremonials, takes cognizance of matters relating to honor, arms, and pedigree, and directs the proclamation of peace and war. The court of chivalry was formerly under his jurisdiction, and he is still the head of the herald's office or college of arms..

Sucker :: Sucken (n.) The jurisdiction of a mill, or that extent of ground astricted to it, the tenants of which are bound to bring their grain thither to be ground..

Deanery :: Deanery (n.) The territorial jurisdiction of a dean.

Hundreder :: Hundreder (n.) One who has the jurisdiction of a hundred; and sometimes, a bailiff of a hundred..

Riding :: Riding (n.) One of the three jurisdictions into which the county of York, in England, is divided; -- formerly under the government of a reeve. They are called the North, the East, and the West, Riding..

Sanhedrim :: Sanhedrim (n.) the great council of the Jews, which consisted of seventy members, to whom the high priest was added. It had jurisdiction of religious matters..

Khanate :: Khanate (n.) Dominion or jurisdiction of a khan.

Soc :: Soc (n.) The lord's power or privilege of holding a court in a district, as in manor or lordship; jurisdiction of causes, and the limits of that jurisdiction..

Provincial :: Provincial (a.) Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical; as, a provincial synod..

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

Constablery :: Constablery (n.) The district or jurisdiction of a constable.

Papal :: Papal (a.) Of or pertaining to the pope of Rome; proceeding from the pope; ordered or pronounced by the pope; as, papal jurisdiction; a papal edict; the papal benediction..

Abbacy :: Abbacy (n.) The dignity, estate, or jurisdiction of an abbot..

Matriarchate :: Matriarchate (n.) The office or jurisdiction of a matriarch; a matriarchal form of government.

Leetman :: Leetman (n.) One subject to the jurisdiction of a court-leet.

Admiralty :: Admiralty (n.) The court which has jurisdiction of maritime questions and offenses.

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