(a.) The legal power, right, or authority of a particular court to hear and determine causes, to try criminals, or to execute justice; judicial authority over a cause or class of causes; as, certain suits or actions, or the cognizance of certain crimes, are within the jurisdiction of a particular court, that is, within the limits of its authority or commission.
(a.) The authority of a sovereign power to govern or legislate; the right of making or enforcing laws; the power or right of exercising authority.
(a.) Sphere of authority; the limits within which any particular power may be exercised, or within which a government or a court has authority.
Example Sentences:
(1) Photograph: Guardian The research also compiled data covered by a wider definition of tax haven, including onshore jurisdictions such as the US state of Delaware – accused by the Cayman islands of playing "faster and looser" even than offshore jurisdictions – and the Republic of Ireland, which has come under sustained pressure from other EU states to reform its own low-tax, light-tough, regulatory environment.
(2) Iowa senator Chuck Grassley, the Republican who chairs the Senate judiciary committee, introduced legislation on Tuesday that would crack down on jurisdictions that provide safe harbor for undocumented migrants by withholding some federal funding for state and local entities if they decline to cooperate with the government on the holding or transferring of undocumented migrants with criminal records.
(3) But she had particular backing from those on the Labour benches who want to stop May’s hardline Brexit plan to leave the single market, customs union and jurisdiction of the European court of justice.
(4) This proportion varied between the jurisdictions: from 43 per cent in Tepatitlan to 70 per cent in Ameca.
(5) In September the court was asked to issue one for the arrest of Ehud Barak, Israel's defence minister, under the 1988 Criminal Justice Act, which gives courts in England and Wales universal jurisdiction in war crimes cases.
(6) An attempt by the UK to challenge the court's jurisdiction was defeated.
(7) The Gambian government has not officially confirmed reports but a statement issued late on Friday said: "All persons on death row have been tried by the Gambian courts of competent jurisdiction and thereof convicted and sentenced to death in accordance with the law.
(8) Jurisdiction in the Supreme Court though, has shown the way of going on.
(9) We note the ongoing work under the UN General Assembly of an Ad Hoc Open-ended Informal Working Group to study issues relating to the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity beyond areas of national jurisdiction.
(10) The repurposing of the devices of unwitting users in foreign jurisdictions for covert attacks in the interests of one country’s national priorities is a dangerous precedent – contrary to international norms, and in violation of widespread domestic laws prohibiting the unauthorised use of computing and networked systems,” they conclude.
(11) Along with the organization of control and supervision while conducting sanitary and hygienic and anti-epidemic measures at the territories within the jurisdiction of SES, the role and participation of sanitary and epidemiological institutions in the control of health status in view of harmful effect of environmental factors and prevention of diseases among population are demonstrated.
(12) Because he was outside British jurisdiction at night, this allowed him to extend the number of days he could stay in the UK without paying tax.
(13) In jurisdictions that sometimes award compensation, the reasons for acceptance or rejection of a claim vary from case to case and are not necessarily based on our present knowledge of the disease.
(14) In Iceland, the first jurisdiction to pass legislation to put tobacco out of sight in 2001, the number of young smokers fell significantly, and laws have now been successfully implemented in nearly all Canadian provinces and Ireland too.
(15) All deaths coming under its jurisdiction will be reported in a timely manner and, when required, authorization for autopsy will be granted from the AFME.
(16) The US took jurisdiction after the second world war and turned them over to Japan in 1972.
(17) In question time on Tuesday, Pyne said officials were still finalising the details of the in-principle agreements with the three jurisdictions to benefit from the restoration of the $1.2bn, but the government was treating the states as “adult” administrators.
(18) In its defence, Luxembourg quickly pointed the finger at other jurisdictions — Belgium and Ireland among them — claiming they too offered attractive but confidential tax rulings in an effort to lure inward investment.
(19) This boundary was chosen because MSAFP values that predict a greater risk than this point for younger women or a lower risk for older women are likely in many jurisdictions to alter a decision about amniocentesis that would be reached without knowledge of MSAFP.
(20) Other drugs, which are legal in some jurisdictions, were classified as soft.
Precinct
Definition:
(n.) The limit or exterior line encompassing a place; a boundary; a confine; limit of jurisdiction or authority; -- often in the plural; as, the precincts of a state.
(n.) A district within certain boundaries; a minor territorial or jurisdictional division; as, an election precinct; a school precinct.
(n.) A parish or prescribed territory attached to a church, and taxed for its support.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, the Iowa Democratic party decided to shift one delegate from Sanders to Clinton on the night and did not notify precinct secretary J Pablo Silva that they had done so.
(2) Raeisha Williams with the Minneapolis NAACP told the AP protesters plan to stay at the precinct until the names of the officers involved are released.
(3) But you could also help swing an entire precinct for Hillary’s opponent with a protest vote or by staying home out of frustration.
(4) Police and protesters clash during Jamar Clark protests as NAACP plans response Read more Tents, fire pits and stools have been set up outside the Fourth Precinct, in the heart of a predominantly black section of the city and just blocks from where Jamar Clark was shot early last Sunday after police responded to an assault complaint.
(5) Criminal complaints to the police in the ARTC area were not reduced as compared to surrounding precincts.
(6) We weren’t trying to satisfy the demands of that day.” It has hosted Britain’s first multiplex cinema, first peace pagoda and almost certainly its first public infinity pool Rather than create a centre from buildings like other new towns such as Cumbernauld with its hulking concrete shopping precinct, CMK was designed as a centre of broad boulevards edged in expensive Cornish granite and lined with London plane trees.
(7) Trump and his allies have repeatedly suggested that voter fraud took place in cities such as Philadelphia and Chicago in 2012, citing as evidence the fact that Mitt Romney failed to win a single vote in 59 almost wholly black precincts of Philadelphia’s 1,687 total.
(8) Marian Dalton (@crazyjane13) Emmo: We will provide $46m for Sunshine Coast health learning precinct.
(9) Some of the candidates have struggled to find enough precinct captains to get their voters out but Paul's campaign has released details of its network, saying it has 1,480 precinct captains.
(10) In Grinnell Ward 1, the precinct where elite liberal arts college Grinnell College is located, 19 delegates were awarded to Bernie Sanders and seven were awarded to Hillary Clinton on caucus night.
(11) The results of its investigation suggests a continuum between Guantánamo interrogation rooms and Chicago police precincts.
(12) By 2.30am, when all precincts had reported, Trump had a remarkable 45.9% of the vote.
(13) As Silva explained it, the Iowa Democratic party’s formula for apportioning delegates left no method of dealing with one delegate in the precinct.
(14) But those hopes have been dashed with 23,221 of 24,491 precincts in the state reporting votes.
(15) They can't even be photographed in the precincts of the building in which the court is held, although this law has been broken on a daily basis ever since security cameras were first installed.
(16) Cluster sampling helps to compensate for the inability to sample every precinct in the state, but the errors of each precinct add together to form a larger state error.
(17) He was forced to shout over the din of several hundred people from 12 precincts in the school cafeteria, where all but the loudest speakers were drowned out.
(18) Five protesters were injured in the Monday night shooting at the Minneapolis police department’s 4th Precinct, where protesters have been conducting a sit-in since the shooting of 24-year-old Jamar Clark on 15 November.
(19) Protesters also continue to occupy the front door and space surrounding the Minneapolis police fourth precinct building.
(20) Similarly, John McCain failed to win votes in Chicago and Atlanta precincts in 2008.