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Definition
the authority to make decisions or apply the law; or the territory subject to such authority
- Now the Cinque Ports are partially or somehow under the jurisdiction of a sort of policeman or beadle, called a Lord Warden.Chapters 88-90 -- Schools and Schoolmasters; Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish; Heads or Tails (78% in)
There are no more uses of "jurisdiction" in Moby Dick.
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