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1. Jurisdiction: Jurisdiction is the power or authority of a court to hear and try a case; the geographic area in which a court has power, or the types of cases it has power to hear. Explained another way, jurisdiction is the ... [100%] 2023-02-26 [Legal Terms]
2. Jurisdiction: JURISDICTION joo-ris-dik'-shun (exousia): The word exousia is well known in New Testament Greek. It is derived from the word exesti, and suggests the absence of any hindrance to an act. It contains the idea of right and ... [100%] 1915-01-01
3. Jurisdiction: Jurisdiction, in general, the exercise of lawful authority, especially by a court or a judge; and so the extent or limits within which such authority is exercisable. Thus each court has its appropriate jurisdiction; in the High Court of Justice ... [100%] 2022-09-02
4. Jurisdiction: The authority of a court of law to decide cases of certain kinds. This depends on the kind of matter in dispute; on the locality of the subject; on the residence of the parties; and on their willingness to submit ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [100%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
5. Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction: This phrase in its primary sense imports not jurisdiction over ecclesiastics, but jurisdiction exercised by ecclesiastics over other ecclesiastics and over the laity. Jurisdiction” is a word borrowed from the jurists which has acquired a wide extension in theology, wherein ... [70%] 2022-09-02
6. Inherent jurisdiction: Inherent jurisdiction is a doctrine of the England common law that a superior court has the jurisdiction to hear any matter that comes before it, unless a statute or rule limits that authority or grants exclusive jurisdiction to some other ... (Social) [70%] 2023-10-29 [Legal doctrines and principles]
7. Exclusive jurisdiction: Exclusive jurisdiction exists in civil procedure if one court has the power to adjudicate a case to the exclusion of all other courts. The opposite situation is concurrent jurisdiction (or non-exclusive jurisdiction) in which more than one court may ... (Social) [70%] 2023-12-08 [Civil procedure]
8. Original jurisdiction: Original jurisdiction is the right of a court to be the first to hear a certain type of case. Generally these courts are lower courts which only hear cases of original jurisdiction (such as a justice of the peace court ... [70%] 2023-03-23 [Government] [United States Government]...
9. Appellate jurisdiction: Appellate jurisdiction is the power of a court to analyze the agreement of a lower court. It is typically held by an appellate court, although some courts have both original jurisdiction and appellate jurisdiction. [70%] 2023-02-14
10. Committee Jurisdiction: Committee jurisdiction are subjects and functions assigned to a committee by rule, resolution, precedent, or practice, including legislative matters, oversight and investigations, and nominations of executive officers. [70%] 2023-02-25 [United States Constitution] [United States Law]...
11. Diversity jurisdiction: In the law of the United States, diversity jurisdiction is a form of subject-matter jurisdiction in civil procedure in which a United States district court in the federal judiciary has the power to hear a civil case when the ... (Social) [70%] 2023-12-14 [Civil procedure]
12. Universal jurisdiction: Universal jurisdiction is a legal principle that allows states or international organizations to claim criminal jurisdiction over an accused person regardless of where the alleged crime was committed, and regardless of the accused's nationality, country of residence, or any ... (Social) [70%] 2023-11-07 [Legal doctrines and principles] [Globalization]...
13. Concurrent jurisdiction: Concurrent jurisdiction exists where two or more courts from different systems simultaneously have jurisdiction over a specific case. This situation often leads to forum shopping, as parties will try to have their civil or criminal case heard in the court ... (Social) [70%] 2024-01-02 [Civil procedure]
14. General jurisdiction: A court of general jurisdiction, in the law of the United States, is a court with authority to hear cases in law and in equity of all kinds – criminal, civil, family, probate, and other legal claims. U.S. [70%] 2024-01-07 [Jurisdiction]
15. Discretionary jurisdiction: Discretionary jurisdiction is a power that allows a court to engage in discretionary review. This power gives a court the authority to decide whether to hear a particular case brought before it. (Social) [70%] 2023-11-20 [Civil procedure]
16. Universal jurisdiction: Universal jurisdiction is a concept in international law, in which certain offenses are considered sufficiently grave that any Requesting State (i.e., nation) may apprehend, or ask for extradition of, an individual who has been charged, by a second state ... [70%] 2023-08-16
17. Territorial jurisdiction (United States): Territorial jurisdiction in United States law refers to a court's power over events and persons within the bounds of a particular geographic territory. If a court does not have territorial jurisdiction over the events or persons within it, then ... (United States) [70%] 2024-01-08 [Civil procedure]
18. Summary jurisdiction: Summary jurisdiction, in the widest sense of the phrase, in English law includes the power asserted by courts of record to deal brevi manu with contempts of court without the intervention of a jury. Probably the power was originally exercisable ... (Social) [70%] 2023-08-26
19. Summary Jurisdiction: In the widest sense this phrase in English law includes the power asserted by courts of record to deal brevi with contempts of court without the intervention of a jury. Probably the power was originally exercisable only when the fact ... [70%] 2022-09-02
20. Diversity jurisdiction: Diversity jurisdiction refers to the power of the Federal courts of the United States to hear cases and controversies in which the opposing parties are not from the same state and the amount in controversy exceeds $75,000, "exclusive of ... [70%] 2023-02-27 [Laws] [United States Courts]...