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Example sentences for "jurisdiction"

Lexicographically close words:
juries; juring; juris; jurisconsult; jurisconsults; jurisdictional; jurisdictions; jurisprudence; jurist; juristic
  1. Nevada First American settlement by Mormons, jurisdiction over Muddy district, old mapping, Muddy abandoned, protest against separation from Arizona New Hope Early California colony Northeastern Arizona Map Nutrioso Est.

  2. There was suggestion that if the authorities of Lincoln County, Nevada, chose to enforce tax collections, it might be well to forestall the seizure of property, to remove it out of the jurisdiction of the State.

  3. The estates of the Italians were exempt from taxes, their persons from the arbitrary jurisdiction of governors.

  4. It is largely the existence of such bodies which renders practical the continued existence of modern republics, with jurisdiction over extended areas.

  5. Nor did the bill--although everybody consented to strike out the phrase to which the senator from Illinois alludes--nor did the bill ever mean to say that Congress absolutely gave up jurisdiction over the subject.

  6. Has Congress renounced its jurisdiction in the case?

  7. Consequently, he prohibited the cardinal from "exercising episcopal jurisdiction in his metropolitan church, and constituted M.

  8. The university, generally, is in some small town; the student has no society but that of his comrades and his professors; again, the university has jurisdiction over him and itself exercises its rights of oversight and police.

  9. But, in law as well as in fact, the University of 1808 still subsists; it has kept its rights, it levies its taxes, it exercises its jurisdiction and enjoys its monopoly.

  10. In fact he still advanced a claim of sovereign jurisdiction which it was impossible for England to allow.

  11. Subject themselves to no law but their own, they had asserted an irresponsible jurisdiction over the souls and bodies of the people.

  12. When the Act of Appeals was before the House of Commons which ended the papal jurisdiction in England, a small knot of Opposition members used to meet privately to deliberate how to oppose it.

  13. Tribute in the shape of annates went next; the appellate jurisdiction was now to follow.

  14. And if the Roman Empire had not existed by right, Tiberius Cæsar, whose vicar was Pontius Pilate, would not have had jurisdiction over all mankind.

  15. No person belonging to a class which is placed by special legislation under the jurisdiction of Special Courts, or is subject to special laws and tribunals, shall be entitled to be placed on the Voters' List.

  16. On the thirteenth day of the same month it passed "An Act giving the assent of the Legislature of Virginia to the Formation of and Erection of a New State within the jurisdiction of this State.

  17. I noted that they belonged to some military court or the archives of a Spanish Audiencia having jurisdiction in New Spain.

  18. And as they are to continue in a state of bondage during the preparatory period, and to be within the jurisdiction of States recognizing ample authority over them, a competent discipline cannot be impracticable.

  19. The court answered this petition with certain observations disclaiming jurisdiction largely for "want of merit in the averments which were made in the complaint as to the violation of Federal rights.

  20. The Negro was not a citizen and in his non-political status could not sue in a Federal court, which for the same reason must disclaim jurisdiction in a case in which the Negro was a party.

  21. He referred to the case of Kentucky as a precedent, attempting thereby to show the competency of Congress to admit a State formed within the jurisdiction of another.

  22. He then read the canon which declares those excommunicated who presume to exercise any act of jurisdiction in the diocese of another bishop.

  23. The holy man reconciled discords, settled the bounds of the jurisdiction of certain dioceses, and condemned and deposed in councils those who were convicted of simony.

  24. It is at this day very stately, and the abbot exercises an eplscopal jurisdiction over the town of San Germano, three little miles distant, and over twenty-one other parishes.

  25. They could not rule themselves completely if large portions of them were under alien jurisdiction in the treaty ports.

  26. The Church of England is in a flourishing state in this Province; there are nineteen Clergymen belonging to the establishment who are under the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Nova-Scotia.

  27. The Jurisdiction of this Court is very extensive, partaking of the power of the Courts of King's Bench, Exchequer, Common Pleas, and other Courts in England.

  28. To whom Gorgias Leontinus made this pithy and plausible answeer, "Now Sleep beginneth to deliver me up into the jurisdiction of his brother-germane, Death.

  29. When I filed the criminal charges against Father Poellmann, I was under the jurisdiction of the Inferior Court of Dresden.

  30. Here also, questions concerning the jurisdiction have been raised, but not by me.

  31. Spanish for "holy brotherhood", an alliance of Spanish cities with their own jurisdiction and police-force.

  32. We contended that we had jurisdiction in Bering Sea; that the seals rearing their young on our islands in that sea were our property; that even though they temporarily went far out into the Pacific Ocean they were under our protection.

  33. Ownership of the land west of that line went to Massachusetts; but jurisdiction over the land, the right to govern, was given to New York.

  34. They shared the criminal jurisdiction of the Gerousia and decided civil suits.

  35. An act was passed for limiting the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court.

  36. Something like this was the effect of the attempt which the Supreme Court made to extend its jurisdiction over the whole of the Company's territory.

  37. Privileges of an equally absurd kind have been set up against the jurisdiction of political philosophy.

  38. This court was made independent of the Governor-General and Council, and was intrusted with a civil and criminal jurisdiction of immense and, at the same time, of undefined extent.

  39. The Peers showed no inclination to usurp the unconstitutional jurisdiction which the King attempted to force on them.

  40. Thus, the king of Cabul, as Mr. Elphinstone informs us, cannot augment the land revenue, or interfere with the jurisdiction of the ordinary tribunals.

  41. With the exception of Oviedo, all the bishoprics in this group fall under the jurisdiction of the Archbishop of Burgos.

  42. Sovereignty jurisdiction can only pass to these inhabitants when the States, the owners of that territory, shall recognize the inhabitants as an independent community, and admit it to become an equal State of the Union.

  43. But wherever the national jurisdiction reached the general government was bound to interfere and suppress the traffic in human flesh.

  44. It would not understand why its violent treatment of the disease within its jurisdiction could not be prescribed as a remedy by the non-slave-holding half of the Union within its borders.

  45. But all the nobles, who held their lands immediately of the crown, were entitled and bound to attend the king's court; and each baron exercised a similar jurisdiction on the subordinate assemblies of his own feudatories.

  46. The island was restored to the jurisdiction of the Roman pontiff; new bishops were planted in the principal cities; and the clergy was satisfied by a liberal endowment of churches and monasteries.

  47. From thence his jurisdiction was extended over the numerous menials of pomp and luxury; and he presided with his silver wand at the public and private audience.

  48. All the attributes of regal and territorial jurisdiction were gradually usurped by the commanders of the provinces; the right of peace and war, of life and death, of coinage and taxation, of foreign alliance and domestic economy.

  49. For the license of pasture they pay a slight tribute to the sovereign of the land; but the domestic jurisdiction is in the hands of the chiefs and elders.

  50. This error of 69° of latitude, which would have extended the claim of British jurisdiction over the whole breadth of the Pacific, had, apparently, escaped the notice of that government.

  51. It became my official duty in London, a few years ago, to apply to the British Government for an authentic statement of their claim to jurisdiction over New Zealand.

  52. The district or jurisdiction of a constable.

  53. Circuit jurisdiction of all offenses against the United States.

  54. They have jurisdiction within statutory limits, both in law and equity, in matters of federal cognizance.

  55. A chapel within the jurisdiction of a church; a subordinate ecclesiastical foundation.

  56. A "country" or suffragan bishop, appointed in the ancient church by a diocesan bishop to exercise episcopal jurisdiction in a rural district.

  57. An officer of the bishop, who exercises ecclesiastical jurisdiction in parts of the diocese at a distance from the residence of the bishop.

  58. The jurisdiction or residence of a consul.


  59. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jurisdiction" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    acme; administration; agency; ambit; arena; assignment; auspices; authority; authorization; bailiwick; beat; border; borderland; brevet; care; championship; charge; circle; circuit; claws; clutches; command; commitment; consignment; control; crown; cure; custody; delegation; demesne; department; deputation; directorship; disposition; domain; domination; dominion; effectiveness; embassy; empire; errand; eye; field; government; grasp; grip; gripe; guardianship; guidance; hand; hands; height; helm; hemisphere; highest; hold; influence; jurisdiction; justice; keeping; kingship; lawfulness; leadership; legation; legitimacy; license; lordship; management; mandate; march; mastership; mastery; maximum; might; ministry; mission; most; office; orb; orbit; oversight; pale; palm; paramountcy; pastorate; patronage; power; precinct; presidency; primacy; province; proxy; purview; realm; record; regency; region; reign; responsibility; round; rule; say; scope; sovereignty; sphere; stewardship; string; supervision; supremacy; surveillance; sway; talons; task; trust; trusteeship; tutelage; validity; walk; ward; wardship; warrant; wing; zenith