0 the authority of a court or official organization to make decisions and judgments :
School admissions are not under/within our jurisdiction.
1 the official authority to make (esp. legal) decisions and judgments:
2 the authority that a particular court of law or official organization has to make laws, rules, or legal decisions:
A law passed in 2006 sought to strip the federal courts of jurisdiction to consider the detainees' plight.
the jurisdiction of sth The appellant challenged the jurisdiction of the court.
jurisdiction in sth For the rules as to jurisdiction in bankruptcy proceedings, including debtors' petitions, see Chapter 1.
jurisdiction to do sth He dismissed the case but retained jurisdiction to resolve any disputes over the settlements.
jurisdiction over sth The United States Court of Appeals has exclusive jurisdiction over patent appeals.
subject to/under/within the jurisdiction of sb/sth If the claim relates to employment matters it will normally be within the jurisdiction of the industrial tribunal.
Cable and satellite channels are outside the jurisdiction of the FCC.
assert/lack jurisdiction An industrial tribunal claimed that it lacked jurisdiction to hear the appellant's complaint of unfair dismissal.
3 a country, state, or other area where a particular set of laws or rules must be obeyed:
The financial community would like to see conformity of rules and regulations between different jurisdictions.
The enforcement of such regulations may be difficult where monitoring is poor or testing is accessed from foreign jurisdictions.
A popular explanation holds that large green jurisdictions have been forcing their trading partners to trade or ratchet up their regulation.
Within these jurisdictions, the occasions of liability and the scope of damages have been significantly restricted.
The final jurisdiction over what an intellectual is resides in culture, which becomes almost coterminous with a singular public opinion.
But its ascent to prominence should not and cannot be achieved simply by declaring jurisdiction over world affairs.
Thefinancialsupport for these various projects was supplied by a mix of public and private universities, federal and state political jurisdictions, and private philanthropic foundations.
I do not mean merely that it has no jurisdiction to discipline them if they break the rule.
So the defence demanded instead a reorientation of military jurisdiction, which during the monarchy had been seen as the 'people's hangman'.
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