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  • He wouldn't be able to intervene, to save me; the transgressions of women in the household, whether Martha or Handmaid, are supposed to be under the jurisdiction of the Wives alone.†   (source)
  • They were regulars at the station, but even when he went somewhere outside his jurisdiction he could sense them when they came near.†   (source)
  • You are a common cyborg, and one who is under my legal jurisdiction.†   (source)
  • She felt somehow humiliated by this public revolt in her area of jurisdiction.†   (source)
  • Korean Air's planes were crashing so often that when the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), the US agency responsible for investigating plane crashes within American jurisdiction, did its report on the Guam crash, it was forced to include an addendum listing all the new Korean Air accidents that had happened just since its investigation began: the Korean Air 747 that crash-landed at Kimpo in Seoul, almost a year to the day after Guam; the jetliner that overran a runway at Korea's Ulsan Airport eight weeks after that; th†   (source)
  • "He was under our jurisdiction," says Tori.†   (source)
  • My father paused as well, then continued, "The city is your jurisdiction, sir.†   (source)
  • I mean, M. Lamia, that a murder was committed but that the police— local and Hegemony-have neither knowledge of it nor jurisdiction over it.†   (source)
  • That's why Jesus fulfilled all of it for you—so that it no longer has jurisdiction over you.†   (source)
  • Six feet of loose fibers trail into her lap, across the floor of the Unit, out the door, and drag on the pavement The MetaCops are taking it easy, cruising down the middle lane, not above issuing a speeding ticket here and there as long as they're in their jurisdiction.†   (source)
  • He took me as far as his jurisdiction went, maybe a little farther, then waved me on.†   (source)
  • We don't have jurisdiction over that.†   (source)
  • There are several little settlements within a day's walk, but I'm sorry to report they all fall under the jurisdiction of our same godless chief, Tata Ndu.†   (source)
  • Even the congressional investigators had recognized that the overlapping jurisdiction was a source of discord and needless expense.†   (source)
  • He now spent much of his day going from one crisis to another—working with families from dozens of countries, including the Ziatys, and educating local police departments about the refugees in their jurisdictions.†   (source)
  • He rose to be Commander in Chief of the revolutionary forces, with jurisdiction and command from one border to the other, and the man most feared by the government, but he never let himself be photographed.†   (source)
  • I figure if those things were in God's jurisdiction, he'd do something different about them.†   (source)
  • Officer Carter still had jurisdiction over that area and did not look kindly on our being there.†   (source)
  • Leroy advertised his business with a sign atop a tower of used tires that would be considered a fire hazard in any other jurisdiction.†   (source)
  • They would have to call the Environmental Protection Agency, which has jurisdiction in cases of environmental contamination by an extreme biohazard.†   (source)
  • Today there is not a single elected official in Colorado Springs — or in El Paso County, the surrounding jurisdiction — who's a registered Democrat.†   (source)
  • I told him that he had no jurisdiction over the attire I chose to wear in court and if he tried to confiscate my kaross I would take the matter all the way to the Supreme Court.†   (source)
  • She certainly wasn't ready for the Council to extend its jurisdiction to Earth.†   (source)
  • Lucien angrily replied, "Ozzie, we're in Memphis and you got no jurisdiction here.†   (source)
  • Hoover wants jurisdiction over the case.†   (source)
  • You are ...under the jurisdiction of me ...the staff.†   (source)
  • When they made dinner together she hit Albert's hand every time he got in the way, a jurisdictional tap on the back of the hand.†   (source)
  • Cleveland's at least got a prior relationship with one of the victims, bringing up a possible motive, but right now none of the jurisdictions have enough to go on.†   (source)
  • I deliberately confused 'a big sea,' that's with an a, with 'a big see,' with two es, meaning the area that comes under the jurisdiction of an archbishop.†   (source)
  • There then followed a hectic jurisdictional dispute between these overlords that was decided in General Dreedle's favor by ex-P. F.C. Wintergreen, mail clerk at Twenty-seventh Air Force Headquarters.†   (source)
  • Sheriff Joe, as he's known locally, has had jurisdiction over the city of Phoenix and the greater metropolitan area around it since he was first elected in 1992.†   (source)
  • It's said to be a deterrent—but in fact, murder rates are higher in death penalty jurisdictions than in those without it.†   (source)
  • France or Thailand or whoever it is that has jurisdiction over Raison Pharmaceutical has to check this out.†   (source)
  • Nephilim dead were the province of the Bone City's guardians, and no one else had jurisdiction over them.†   (source)
  • Accordingly, all of these crimes came under county police jurisdiction, which meant that Stockholm would have the last word.†   (source)
  • Not my jurisdiction.†   (source)
  • Our city has, in the five years of my jurisdiction, lowered its crime rate by five percent.†   (source)
  • His lawyers asked to have it tossed out on "diplomatic immunity" but F.N. judges did not fall into trap, merely noted that alleged offenses had taken place outside jurisdiction of lower court, except alleged "inciting" concerning which they found insufficient evidence.†   (source)
  • "I hope they're fixin' to play it in Mexico," said the sheriff, wishing this had happened in someone else's jurisdiction.†   (source)
  • The federal government has no jurisdiction to intervene in domestic affairs of foreign nationals.†   (source)
  • They hoped to do their business quickly, cleanly—and get out before they were required to explain their presence to the local authorities, which would at least tangle them in inter-jurisdictional paperwork and might result in troubling questions about what legitimate laws they were enforcing.†   (source)
  • They're Government-approved, so they are beyond my jurisdiction, anyway.'†   (source)
  • If local jurisdictions have any exclusive authority, it should be the appointment of their own officers.†   (source)
  • Since the attack had occurred in the county, jurisdiction for my attempted murder fell to the Washington County Sheriff's Department.†   (source)
  • The crux of that problem involves an ongoing partition of the island between British and Irish jurisdictions, and an equally persistent partition of the affections in Northern Ireland between the British and Irish heritages; but surely every dweller in the country must hope that the governments involved in its governance can devise institutions which will allow that partition to become a bit more like the net on a tennis court, a demarcation allowing fo†   (source)
  • Though I knew my project was outside their jurisdiction and that they could not support it in any way, I wanted them to know about it in advance.†   (source)
  • There were eleven cases of men drunk on return from leave waiting for his jurisdiction and he found these very difficult to deal with.†   (source)
  • That is outside my jurisdiction, but I expect he will come back Ofl the next ship.†   (source)
  • " Then: "I'm outside my jurisdiction in any case."†   (source)
  • They looked at me again like they had been placed under the jurisdiction of a functioning cretin.†   (source)
  • "Besides," she went on, "you're not only beyond the city jurisdiction, you're in another county."†   (source)
  • Since the Spanish-American War, the United States has taken eight million less-advanced people under its jurisdiction, in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Phillipines.†   (source)
  • I know it's out of your jurisdiction.†   (source)
  • Afterwards, it divides the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court into original and appellate.†   (source)
  • The separation of the equity from the legal jurisdiction is unique to the English system of justice.†   (source)
  • In New York, the line between common law and equitable jurisdiction follow the rules in England.†   (source)
  • But it doesn't define the jurisdiction of the subordinate courts.†   (source)
  • Pennsylvania doesn't have a court of chancery, and its common-law courts have equity jurisdiction.†   (source)
  • Separating equity from law jurisdiction has advantages.†   (source)
  • Their common-law courts have admiralty and some equity jurisdiction.†   (source)
  • The national judiciary will not have jurisdiction.†   (source)
  • The first excludes, the last includes, the concurrent jurisdiction of the State tribunals.†   (source)
  • Not allowing State jurisdiction in these cases would not limit preexisting authority.†   (source)
  • The Constitution lists the cases within federal jurisdiction.†   (source)
  • Federal courts can't extend their jurisdiction beyond these limits.†   (source)
  • An equity court can easily extend its jurisdiction to matters of law.†   (source)
  • The New Jersey courts of common law have the jurisdiction in cases that in New York are determined in the courts of admiralty and of probates.†   (source)
  • But extending the jurisdiction of the courts of law to equity causes will change the nature of the courts of law.†   (source)
  • What relationship would exist between the national and State courts in cases with concurrent jurisdiction?†   (source)
  • Either this is true or the local courts must be excluded from a concurrent jurisdiction in matters of national concern.†   (source)
  • But in another, the same cause must be decided without a jury, because the State judicatories vary as to common-law jurisdiction.†   (source)
  • All land causes, except those involving claims from different States, will belong to the jurisdiction of State courts.†   (source)
  • State jurisdiction of civil cases will not be greatly affected by the proposed change in our system of government.†   (source)
  • The State courts have a concurrent jurisdiction in all cases arising under the Union's laws when not prohibited.†   (source)
  • Vide Number 81 refutes the idea that it is abolished by the appellate jurisdiction in matters of fact being vested in the Supreme Court.†   (source)
  • Civil Causes: State Jurisdiction†   (source)
  • And in civil cases, it looks at all subjects of litigation between parties within its jurisdiction, even if the disputes deal with laws in the most distant part of the globe.†   (source)
  • When States are not expressly excluded by the future acts of the national legislature, they will take jurisdiction of the cases to which those acts may give birth.†   (source)
  • Limited Concurrent Jurisdiction†   (source)
  • If the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court were confined to appeals from inferior federal courts instead of allowing their extension to the State courts, it would abridge the latitude of the terms in subversion of the intent, contrary to every sound rule of interpretation.†   (source)
  • And all other controversies between the citizens of the same State, unless they involve violations of the US Constitution by acts of the State legislatures, will also be under State court jurisdiction.†   (source)
  • One statement in the Constitution confines the causes of federal jurisdiction to the federal courts: "The JUDICIAL POWER of the United States shall be vested in one Supreme Court and in such inferior courts as the Congress shall from time to time ordain and establish."†   (source)
  • We both knew Burns from our last "multijurisdictional" case.†   (source)
  • A multijurisdictional nightmare.†   (source)
  • Since you're already outside the multijurisdictional mess, and therefore immune to it, why don't you keep it that way.†   (source)
  • As you know, or suspect, this is already a four-star, multijurisdictional nightmare, and it hasn't really heated up yet.†   (source)
  • I asked softly as we came up to the unlikely police group, the "multijurisdictional mess," as Nick Ruskin had described it.†   (source)
  • The Interstellar Transit Authority has jurisdiction there.†   (source)
  • He is French, and our jurisdiction requires—†   (source)
  • I relayed my story again and there was a slight squabble about jurisdiction.†   (source)
  • They are not in this world, nor here in Faerie, nor in any land over which I have jurisdiction.†   (source)
  • And did she really want the hassle of dealing with intra-jurisdiction paperwork?†   (source)
  • Except for eviction notices, my jurisdiction ends at the town limits.†   (source)
  • It was totally out of his jurisdiction, he said.†   (source)
  • Nor does every problem fall under our jurisdiction.†   (source)
  • A pathway that the Nephilim can't close, because it lies outside the jurisdiction of our Laws.†   (source)
  • All combat operations are now under the jurisdiction of Special Services.†   (source)
  • The people who were looking after Zalachenko went far beyond their jurisdiction.†   (source)
  • First of all, with regards to jurisdiction.†   (source)
  • Jurisdiction falls to the state of Texas and the municipality of Dallas.†   (source)
  • He was returned to us, since military law and jurisdiction take precedence over civil code.†   (source)
  • Now I'm running point between three jurisdictions.†   (source)
  • Its jurisdiction is limited to specific objectives.†   (source)
  • The next paper discusses this concurrent jurisdiction in taxation.†   (source)
  • I believe the appellate jurisdiction, as defined by the Constitution, is proper.†   (source)
  • Admiralty and maritime cases are the fifth class of causes proper for national jurisdiction.†   (source)
  • It had jurisdiction in controversies between inhabitants and people who came to consult the oracle.†   (source)
  • Their probate courts have no jurisdiction of causes.†   (source)
  • —The one has no religious jurisdiction; the other is the supreme head of the national church!†   (source)
  • The Constitution lists the Union's jurisdiction.†   (source)
  • This would be an invasion of the concurrent tax jurisdiction.†   (source)
  • Or will the State courts have a concurrent jurisdiction?†   (source)
  • There should be one supreme court of final jurisdiction.†   (source)
  • Those courts can decide matters of national jurisdiction within their limits.†   (source)
  • This appellate jurisdiction does not abolish the trial by jury.†   (source)
  • Federal jurisdiction extends to specific objectives only.†   (source)
  • This last case is different from concurrent jurisdiction.†   (source)
  • In some cases, joint jurisdiction is necessary.†   (source)
  • This is jurisdiction of both fact and law.†   (source)
  • Number 34: Union, States Concurrent Taxation Jurisdiction†   (source)
  • The Supreme Court will have appellate jurisdiction both as to law and fact.†   (source)
  • What is the role of State courts in causes that fall under federal jurisdiction?†   (source)
  • The same is true for commerce and every other area under its jurisdiction.†   (source)
  • Other Advantages of Republic: Federal Government: Defined, Limited Jurisdiction†   (source)
  • Beyond this limit, should the States have sovereign and independent jurisdiction?†   (source)
  • A small part of original jurisdiction is given to the Supreme Court.†   (source)
  • The propriety of this appellate jurisdiction has been rarely questioned.†   (source)
  • The appellate jurisdiction should sometimes extend in the broadest sense to matters of fact.†   (source)
  • But it takes jurisdiction of it as it appears on the record.†   (source)
  • The Supreme Court will have original jurisdiction in only two classes of causes.†   (source)
  • Is the federal jurisdiction to be exclusive?†   (source)
  • They have jurisdiction of both fact and law.†   (source)
  • But State courts will not lose any of their original jurisdictions further than an appeal.†   (source)
  • The Supreme Court will ultimately decide boundary disputes between two jurisdictions.†   (source)
  • And it is proper jurisdictions of the United States.†   (source)
  • Both city and county police had been crisscrossing their jurisdictions, looking for any sign of Wes and Tony.†   (source)
  • The commission seemed to form new departments every day, each with a paid chief—Davis named a superintendent of sheep, for a salary that today would total about $60,000 a year—and each claiming some piece of jurisdiction that Burnham thought belonged to him.†   (source)
  • It is the largest population of child offenders condemned to die in prison in any single jurisdiction in the world.†   (source)
  • Those are in our jurisdiction.†   (source)
  • Our home was on a busy street that sat right on the border of Maryland and Washington, D.C., stuck confusingly between two different municipal jurisdictions, a fact that would become very significant in the near future.†   (source)
  • The county took the position that even though the sheriff's jurisdiction is limited to the county, he's elected by people only in the county, and he's paid by the county, he's not an employee of the county.†   (source)
  • In some jurisdictions, if the person lacks the support of the prosecuting attorney who wrongly convicted him, compensation will be denied.†   (source)
  • In the 1980s, the Court rejected a constitutional challenge to imposing the death penalty on juveniles; upheld the death penalty for disabled people suffering from "mental retardation"; and, in a widely condemned opinion, found no constitutional violation in the extreme racial disparities that could be seen throughout most death penalty jurisdictions.†   (source)
  • However, recent information has come to my attention that puts both of these cases under Illegals jurisdiction.†   (source)
  • The Court wishes to add that your punishment is light simply because this Court possesses no jurisdiction to assign greater punishment.†   (source)
  • Your lab didn't hook into it because the hybrid's on the horticultural colonies' restricted list, and puts it under Galactic Customs' jurisdiction.†   (source)
  • "Under jurisdiction and control—" Harding shuts off the buffer, and leaves it in the hall, and goes pulls him a chair up alongside McMurphy and sits down and lights him a cigarette too.†   (source)
  • As a Chancellor, Reuben Atlee had absolutely no jurisdiction over drunk driving cases in the county, though, as always, he assumed they were his business.†   (source)
  • The manufacture of frozen cheese pizzas is regulated by the FDA, but if a pizza has pepperoni on it, the USDA has food safety jurisdiction.†   (source)
  • How is it she could laugh all night at his stories about a day in the garment district, or a day when he went to Toots Shor's famous restaurant, out of the district, the famous Toots Shor, out of his jurisdiction completely, but Toots Shor met him and liked him and wanted to give him some action and he was a heavy bettor, very, and Jimmy made occasional trips to West 51st Street to take limited bets from Toots Shor, a big lumbering man with a face like a traffic accident, and he told her stories about the well-heeled bums around the big bar drinking until four in the morning.†   (source)
  • "I don't have any jurisdiction here," Eve began as she took a cushioned chair with a low back, "but I'd like to record this meeting, with your permission."†   (source)
  • Because sheriffs didn't have jurisdiction over traffic accidents—nor would he have been allowed to investigate, even if the sheriffs had—he'd followed in the footsteps of the highway patrol, interviewing the same people, asking the same questions, and sifting through the same information.†   (source)
  • After some palaver over jurisdiction between Strängnäs and Södertälje, he wound up in the cells in Södertälje.†   (source)
  • They have no agreement with Shadowhunters and do not recognize our jurisdiction, and they will not abide by laws, any laws.†   (source)
  • The doctor carried the fight to them by first off telling the cops they didn't have any jurisdiction over us, as we were a legal, government-sponsored expedition, and if there was anyone to take the matter up with it would have to be a federal agency.†   (source)
  • 'I keep invading his jurisdiction with comments and criticisms that are really none of my business, and he doesn't know what to do about it.†   (source)
  • As such, the commander, Lieutenant Gedney, was within his right to bring it to port in Connecticut, giving this court jurisdiction over the case.†   (source)
  • It was General Peckem's opinion that all combat units in the theater should be placed under the jurisdiction of the Special Service Corps, of which General Peckem himself was the commanding officer.†   (source)
  • We have no jurisdiction over them.†   (source)
  • Then it's a medical matter, and the prime minister has no jurisdiction to determine whether or not she is sane.†   (source)
  • Discussions are ongoing as to whether to combine all the charges against your client under the jurisdiction of a prosecutor in Stockholm and tie them in with what happened here.†   (source)
  • He explained that it had been decided that the investigation into the police killing in Gosseberga—for which Ronald Niedermann was being sought—would be placed under the jurisdiction of a prosecutor in Göteborg.†   (source)
  • Treaties and the laws of nations may seem proper for federal jurisdiction and municipal laws for State jurisdiction.†   (source)
  • Concurrent State/Federal Jurisdiction†   (source)
  • The appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court (they may have argued) will extend to causes determined in different modes.†   (source)
  • And this jurisdiction will be subject to exceptions and regulations written by the national legislature.†   (source)
  • And the States have sovereign, independent jurisdiction over all powers not specifically stated in the Constitution.†   (source)
  • If the jurisdiction of such cases was united with the ordinary jurisdiction, every case would need a special determination.†   (source)
  • If each State has a court of final jurisdiction, there may be as many different final decisions on an issue as there are courts.†   (source)
  • Clearly, this is outside the federal government' s jurisdiction and would trespass on the State's authority.†   (source)
  • With inferior federal courts, every case of federal jurisdiction will not need to go to the Supreme Court.†   (source)
  • The jurisdiction of Great Britain's different courts is frequently discussed, but it still isn't perfectly clear.†   (source)
  • Therefore, the State courts will keep the jurisdiction they now have, unless one of the three ways takes it away.†   (source)
  • I believe States will have concurrent jurisdiction with the inferior federal courts in many cases of federal jurisdiction.†   (source)
  • Therefore, the federal judiciary should have jurisdiction in all cases concerning the citizens of other countries.†   (source)
  • And it would be very difficult, if not impossible, to decide if a case falls under federal or municipal jurisdiction.†   (source)
  • Concurrent jurisdiction applies only to cases where the State courts have jurisdiction before adopting the Constitution.†   (source)
  • The Supreme Court will have only appellate jurisdiction "with such exceptions and under such regulations as the Congress shall make."†   (source)
  • If each State had an independent court of final jurisdiction over the same cases, arising out of the same laws, it would create a hydra in government.†   (source)
  • The cities in the league had municipal jurisdiction, appointed their own officers, and were perfectly equal.†   (source)
  • The Constitution gives the Supreme Court appellate jurisdiction in all the cases of federal jurisdiction where it doesn't have original jurisdiction.†   (source)
  • Even the most bigoted idolizers of State authority say the national courts have jurisdiction of maritime causes.†   (source)
  • In Switzerland, each canton [state] must allow merchandise passage through its jurisdiction into other cantons without additional tolls.†   (source)
  • Thus, preposterously, the law of the first State is dominant to the law of the second, within the jurisdiction of the second State.†   (source)
  • When there is a concurrent jurisdiction, national and State policies may overlap occasionally, but there won't be any direct contradiction of constitutional authority.†   (source)
  • And they are the only instances in which the proposed Constitution directly contemplates the jurisdiction of disputes between the citizens of the same State.†   (source)
  • When foreigners are concerned on either side of such cases, it would be impossible for the federal courts to do justice without equitable as well as legal jurisdiction.†   (source)
  • Before the State courts could try federal cases, the national legislature would have to give them jurisdiction over causes arising out of the national Constitution.†   (source)
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