Sidenote: Jurisdiction over Pirates, and their Punishment.
As the members of his retinue are considered exterritorial, the receiving State has no jurisdiction over them, and the home State may therefore delegate such civil and criminal jurisdiction to the envoy.
Jurisdiction over aliens in these countries is exercised by the consuls of their home States, which have enacted special Municipal Laws for that purpose.
In Portugal, João III had no sooner got his Inquisition into working order than he was seized with the desire to obtain for it jurisdiction over the pecado maao.
As they had no jurisdiction over infidels, he rebuked them severely, telling them that conversion through conviction is alone pleasing to God and that no one is to be baptized except on voluntary application.
They were outside of the Church and the Church claimed no jurisdiction over them in matters of religion, so long as they did not openly blaspheme Christianity or seek to make proselytes.
Jurisdiction over Persons--Nationality Under the discussion of jurisdiction of the state over persons comes the question of nationality.
Jurisdiction over Natural-born Subjects Children born within a state of which the parents are citizens are natural-born subjects of that state.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jurisdiction over" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
