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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.
- Jurisdiction - a. - The authority of a sovereign power to govern or legislate; the right of making or enforcing laws; the power or right of exercising authority.
- Jurisdiction - a. - Sphere of authority; the limits within which any particular power may be exercised, or within which a government or a court has authority.
- Jurisdictional - a. - Of or pertaining to jurisdiction; as jurisdictional rights.
- Concurrent - a. - Joint and equal in authority; taking cognizance of similar questions; operating on the same objects; as, the concurrent jurisdiction of courts.
- Viscountcy - n. - The dignity or jurisdiction of a viscount.
- Zamindari - n. - The jurisdiction of a zamindar; the land possessed by a zamindar.
- Accroach - v. t. - To usurp, as jurisdiction or royal prerogatives.
- Thanedom - n. - The property or jurisdiction of a thane; thanage.
- 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.
- Collection - n. - The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.
- Presbytery - n. - A judicatory consisting of all the ministers within a certain district, and one layman, who is a ruling elder, from each parish or church, commissioned to represent the church in conjunction with the pastor. This body has a general jurisdiction over the churches under its care, and next below the provincial synod in authority.
- Syndicate - n. - The office or jurisdiction of a syndic; a council, or body of syndics.
- Pastorate - n. - The office, state, or jurisdiction of a pastor.
- Leet - n. - A court-leet; the district within the jurisdiction of a court-leet; the day on which a court-leet is held.
- 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.
- 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.
- Ordinary - n. - An officer who has original jurisdiction in his own right, and not by deputation.
- Consulate - n. - The jurisdiction or residence of a consul.
- See - n. - Specifically: (a) The seat of episcopal power; a diocese; the jurisdiction of a bishop; as, the see of New York. (b) The seat of an archibishop; a province or jurisdiction of an archibishop; as, an archiepiscopal see. (c) The seat, place, or office of the pope, or Roman pontiff; as, the papal see. (d) The pope or his court at Rome; as, to appeal to the see of Rome.
- Before - prep. - Under the cognizance or jurisdiction of.
- Franchise - a. - The district or jurisdiction to which a particular privilege extends; the limits of an immunity; hence, an asylum or sanctuary.
- Leetman - n. - One subject to the jurisdiction of a court-leet.
- Ne exeat - - A writ to restrain a person from leaving the country, or the jurisdiction of the court. The writ was originally applicable to purposes of state, but is now an ordinary process of courts of equity, resorted to for the purpose of obtaining bail, or security to abide a decree.
- Catholicos - n. - The spiritual head of the Armenian church, who resides at Etchmiadzin, Russia, and has ecclesiastical jurisdiction over, and consecrates the holy oil for, the Armenians of Russia, Turkey, and Persia, including the Patriarchs of Constantinople, Jerusalem, and Sis.
- Provincial - a. - Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical; as, a provincial synod.
- Castellany - n. - The lordship of a castle; the extent of land and jurisdiction appertaining to a castle.
- Precinct - n. - The limit or exterior line encompassing a place; a boundary; a confine; limit of jurisdiction or authority; -- often in the plural; as, the precincts of a state.
- Fuero - n. - The jurisdiction of a tribunal.
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- G1849 ἐξουσία - 1849 ἐξουσία - ἘΞΟΥΣΊΑ - - exousía - ex-oo-see'-ah - from ἔξεστι (in the sense of ability); privilege, i.e. (subjectively) force, capacity, competency, freedom, or (objectively) mastery (concretely, magistrate, superhuman, potentate, token of control), delegated influence:--authority, jurisdiction, liberty, power, right, strength. - Noun Feminine - greek
- H4896 מִשְׁטָר - 4896 מִשְׁטָר - מִשְׁטָר - - mishṭâr - mish-tawr' - from שֹׁטֵר; jurisdiction; dominion. - Noun Masculine - heb
- H4082 מְדִינָה - 4082 מְדִינָה - מְדִינָה - - mᵉdîynâh - med-ee-naw' - from דִּין; properly, a judgeship, i.e. jurisdiction; by implication, a district (as ruled by a judge); generally, a region; ([idiom] every) province. - Noun Feminine - heb
- H4083 מְדִינָה - 4083 מְדִינָה - מְדִינָה - - mᵉdîynâh - med-ee-naw' - (Aramaic) corresponding to מְדִינָה; {properly, a judgeship, i.e. jurisdiction; by implication, a district (as ruled by a judge); generally, a region}; province. - Noun Feminine - arc
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