法域

Chinese

		law; method; way law; method; way; Buddhist teaching; Legalist; France (abbrev.)	field; region; area field; region; area; (taxonomy) domain
simp. and trad. (法域)		法	域
Literally: “legal domain”.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fǎyù

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄚˇ ㄩˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): faat³ wik⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fǎyù
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄚˇ ㄩˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fǎyù
    • Wade–Giles: fa³-yü⁴
    • Yale: fǎ-yù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: faayuh
    • Palladius: фаюй (fajuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fä²¹⁴⁻²¹ y⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: faat³ wik⁶
    • Yale: faat wihk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: faat⁸ wik⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: fad³ wig⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /faːt̚³ wɪk̚²/

Noun

法域

1. (chiefly Mainland China, law) jurisdiction (limits or territory within which authority may be exercised)
   • 2011, Liu Jinglian (劉京蓮), “試論“一國兩制”下中國區際司法協助範式建構”, in Academic Journal of One Country Two Systems‎^[1], page 76:

     司法行為具有公法的性質，一法域法院不能徑行在另一法域進行諸如調查取證、送達司法文書等行為，法院判決和仲裁裁決也不能自動在另一法域產生法律效力。 [MSC, trad.]
     司法行为具有公法的性质，一法域法院不能径行在另一法域进行诸如调查取证、送达司法文书等行为，法院判决和仲裁裁决也不能自动在另一法域产生法律效力。 [MSC, simp.]

     Sīfǎ xíngwèi jùyǒu gōngfǎ de xìngzhì, yī fǎyù fǎyuàn bùnéng jìngxíng zài lìngyī fǎyù jìnxíng zhūrú diàochá qǔzhèng, sòngdá sīfǎ wénshū děng xíngwèi, fǎyuàn pànjué hé zhòngcái cáijué yě bùnéng zìdòng zài lìngyī fǎyù chǎnshēng fǎlǜ xiàolì. [Pinyin]

     Judicial acts have the characteristics of public law. Courts in a jurisdiction cannot by its own volition to conduct investigation or serve documents etc. in another jurisdiction. Court judgments and arbitration awards also cannot enter into force automatically in another jurisdiction.

   • 2022 April 23, Teresa Cheng Yeuk-wah, 律政司司長在粵港澳大灣區司法案例研討會致辭全文 (Speech by Secretary of Justice Teresa Cheng Yeuk-wah at the Greater Bay Area Judicial Case Seminar)‎^[2]:

     在保持三地法域的獨特性之餘，進一步消除區際法律衝突，需要三地在司法協作的實踐中不斷探索。 [MSC, trad.]
     在保持三地法域的独特性之余，进一步消除区际法律冲突，需要三地在司法协作的实践中不断探索。 [MSC, simp.]

     Zài bǎochí sān dì fǎyù de dútè xìng zhī yú, jìnyībù xiāochú qū jì fǎlǜ chōngtū, xūyào sān dì zài sīfǎ xiézuò de shíjiàn zhōng bùduàn tànsuǒ. [Pinyin]

     To further eliminate interregional legal conflicts, the three places [Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau] needs to continuously discover in judicial practice while maintaining their jurisdictions' uniqueness.