jurisdiction

English

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Etymology

From Latin iūrisdictiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒʊɹɪsˈdɪkʃən/, /d͡ʒɝɪsˈdɪkʃən/
• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒʊəɹɪsˈdɪkʃən/, /d͡ʒɔːɹɪsˈdɪkʃən/
• Rhymes: -ɪkʃən
• Hyphenation: ju‧ris‧dic‧tion

Noun

jurisdiction (countable and uncountable, plural jurisdictions)

1. The power, right, or authority to interpret and apply the law.
2. The power or right to exercise authority.
3. The authority of a sovereign power to govern or legislate.
4. 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

• Albanian: jurisdiksion m
• Arabic: قَضَاء m (qaḍāʔ)
• Armenian: իրավասություն (hy) (iravasutʻyun)
• Belarusian: юрысды́кцыя f (jurysdýkcyja)
• Bulgarian: правосъдие (bg) n (pravosǎdie)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 管轄／管辖 (zh) (guǎnxiá), 管辖 (zh) (guǎnxiá)

• Czech: jurisdikce f
• Danish: jurisdiktion c
• Estonian: jurisdiktsioon
• Finnish: lainkäyttövalta, toimivalta (fi)
• French: juridiction (fr) f
• Galician: jurisdición f, xurisdición (gl) f
• Georgian: იურისდიქცია (iurisdikcia)
• German: Jurisdiktion (de) f
• Greek: δικαιοδοσία (el) f (dikaiodosía)
• Indonesian: wewenang (id)
• Irish: urlámhas m
• Italian: giurisdizione (it) f
• Japanese: 管轄 (ja) (かんかつ, kankatsu)
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• Korean: 관할 (ko) (gwanhal)
• Latin: diciō f
• Latvian: jurisdikcija f
• Lithuanian: jurisdikcija f
• Macedonian: јурисдикција f (jurisdikcija)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: jurisdiksjon m

• Polish: jurysdykcja (pl) f
• Portuguese: competência (pt) f, jurisdição (pt) f
• Romanian: jurisdicție (ro) f
• Russian: юрисди́кция (ru) f (jurisdíkcija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: јурисдѝкција f

  Roman: jurisdìkcija (sh) f

• Slovak: jurisdikcia f
• Slovene: jurisdikcija f
• Spanish: jurisdicción (es) f
• Swedish: jurisdiktion (sv) c
• Ukrainian: юрисди́кція (uk) f (jurysdýkcija)
• Uzbek: yurisdiksiya (uz)

the power or right to exercise authority

• Arabic: اِخْتِصَاص m (iḵtiṣāṣ)
• Bulgarian: пълномощие (bg) n (pǎlnomoštie)
• Danish: jurisdiktion c
• Galician: jurisdición f
• Georgian: იურისდიქცია (iurisdikcia)
• Greek: δικαιοδοσία (el) f (dikaiodosía), αρμοδιότητα (el) f (armodiótita)
• Indonesian: wewenang (id)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Irish: urlámhas m
• Italian: giurisdizione (it) f
• Portuguese: competência (pt) f
• Spanish: jurisdicción (es) f

the authority of a sovereign power to govern or legislate

• Bulgarian: юрисдикция (bg) f (jurisdikcija)
• Danish: jurisdiktion c
• Georgian: იურისდიქცია (iurisdikcia)
• Greek: δικαιοδοσία (el) f (dikaiodosía)
• Italian: giurisdizione (it) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Maori: mana whakahaere
• Portuguese: competência (pt) f
• Spanish: jurisdicción (es) f

the limits or territory within which authority may be exercised

• Danish: jurisdiktion c
• Finnish: hallintoalue
• Galician: jurisdición f
• Georgian: იურისდიქცია (iurisdikcia)
• Greek: δικαιοδοσία (el) f (dikaiodosía)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Indonesian: kewenangan (id)
• Italian: giurisdizione (it) f
• Portuguese: jurisdição (pt) f
• Spanish: jurisdicción (es) f

See also

• control