Word Meanings - JURISDICTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

• Commissioning
  of Commission
• COURTTENNIS
  See under Tennis.
• Courteousness
  The quality of being courteous; politeness; courtesy.
• Courtly
  Relating or belonging to a court.
• Judicial
  Pertaining or appropriate to courts of justice, or to a judge; practiced or conformed to in the administration of justice; sanctioned or ordered by a court; as, judicial power; judicial proceedings; a judicial sale.
• Legalizing
  of Legalize
• Powerful
  Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any kind; potent; mighty; efficacious; intense; as, a powerful man or beast; a powerful engine; a powerful argument; a powerful light; a powerful vessel.
• Certainness
  Certainty.
• Right-hand
  Situated or being on the right; nearer the right hand than the left; as, the right-hand side, room, or road.
• Classifiable
  Capable of being classified.
• Classific
  Characterizing a class or classes; relating to classification.
• Withinforth
  Within; inside; inwardly.
• Commissional
  Alt. of Commissionary
• RIGHTABOUT
  A turning directly about by the right, so as to face in the opposite direction; also, the quarter directly opposite; as, to turn to the right-about. To send to the right-about, to cause to turn toward the opposite point or quarter; -- hence, of troops,
• Courtepy
  A short coat of coarse cloth.
• Courts-martial
  of Court-martial
• Judicially
  In a judicial capacity or judicial manner.
• Legalize
  To make legal.
• Powerless
  Destitute of power, force, or energy; weak; impotent; not able to produce any effect.

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