Other forms: jurisdictions
Jurisdiction is the area or subject a court has power over. Outside our jurisdiction, federal jurisdiction, claim jurisdiction.
Two questions decide it: where the events happened and what kind of case it is. Outside my jurisdiction is what an official says when the matter belongs to somebody else, and it is heard as often in offices as in courts. Jurisdiction is also used to mean a legal territory itself: in some jurisdictions this is legal. Note jurisdictional; and that disputes over jurisdiction can take longer than the case.
1nounjurisdictionThe area or subject a court has power over.
“The case was sent to a higher court because the local court had no jurisdiction.”
2nounterritoryA legal territory.
“The suspect fled to another jurisdiction where the police could not arrest him.”
jurisdiction is legal authority or territory.
Latin
iūrisdictiō
English, today
jurisdiction
Borrowed from Latin iūrisdictiō.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in Crime & Law