jurisdiction
English
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Etymology
From Latin iūrisdictiō.
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɪkʃən
- Hyphenation: ju‧ris‧dic‧tion
Noun
jurisdiction (countable and uncountable, plural jurisdictions)
- The power, right, or authority to interpret and apply the law.
- The power or right to exercise authority.
- The authority of a sovereign power to govern or legislate.
- The limits or territory within which authority may be exercised.
- 2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68:
- The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them […] is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies. […] current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate […] “stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.
Synonyms
- power
- (historical, UK): oyer and terminer, soc and sac
Derived terms
- appellate jurisdiction
- diversity jurisdiction
- federal question jurisdiction
- interjurisdiction
- interjurisdictional
- interjurisdictionally
- jurisdictional
- jurisdictionally
- jurisdictionless
- multijurisdiction
- multijurisdictional
- pendent jurisdiction
- personal jurisdiction
- subject matter jurisdiction
- supplemental jurisdiction
Translations
the power, right, or authority to interpret and apply the law
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the power or right to exercise authority
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the authority of a sovereign power to govern or legislate
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the limits or territory within which authority may be exercised
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See also
Categories:
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *deyḱ-
- English terms borrowed from Latin
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- Rhymes:English/ɪkʃən
- English lemmas
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- English countable nouns
- English terms with quotations