summary jurisdiction
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Compound of summary + jurisdiction.
Noun
[edit]summary jurisdiction (uncountable)
- (law) The authority of a court of law to summarily issue a conviction, typically for a petty crime, without requiring a trial by jury. [from 18th c.]
- 1849, John Adams, Summary Jurisdiction: A Charge to the Grand Jury of the Quarter Sessions of the County of Middlesex, page 17:
- […] I would (so far as regards children under fourteen years) take from magistrates their present power of summary jurisdiction, and substitute very extensive powers of a different nature ; […]
Translations
[edit]authority to summarily issue a conviction