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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
jurisdiction /ˌdʒʊərɪsˈdɪkʃ(ə)n/
▶noun
- 1 the official power to make legal decisions and judgements.
■ the territory or sphere over which the legal authority of a court or other institution extends.
- 2 a system of law courts.
– derivatives
jurisdictional adjective.
jurisdictional adjective.
– origin ME: from OFr. jurediction, from L. jurisdictio(n-), from jus, jur- ‘law’ + dictio ‘saying’ (from dicere ‘say’).
'jurisdiction' also found in these Oxford entries:
Admiralty
- afforest
- airspace
- bail
- bailiwick
- benefit
- cognizable
- commission of the peace
- County Palatine
- court of summary jurisdiction
- Crown court
- danger
- diocese
- district
- exarch
- extradite
- extraterritorial
- high court
- high seas
- landgrave
- leet
- letters rogatory
- mare clausum
- ordinary
- oust
- ouster
- palatinate
- pale
- peculiar
- praemunire
- quarter sessions
- regality
- renvoi
- shrievalty
- soke
- subject
- summary jurisdiction
- superior court
- territorial waters
- territory
- venue
- water
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Switzerland might not be the jurisdiction it should worry about
the jurisdiction most ready to prosecute Jeffs would probably get the case first. ? ?
jurisdiction
submit, join, jurisdiction
Switzerland might not be the jurisdiction it should worry about
the jurisdiction most ready to prosecute Jeffs would probably get the case first. ? ?
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