Usage examples for jurisdiction
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No. But I deny your jurisdiction in the matter, or that of any English court, since I have committed no piracy in English waters. – The Sea-Hawk by Raphael Sabatini
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In practice, however, all Magistrates have been given jurisdiction to sit in the Children's Court. – Report of the Special Committee on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents The Mazengarb Report (1954) by Oswald Chettle Mazengarb et al.
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The knights were exempt from the jurisdiction of all courts, save that of their own chapter. – History of Holland by George Edmundson