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Jurisdiction is the right or power to enforce the law and to judge what is legal or not. In a family, children do not usually have jurisdiction over what is against the rules or not, or the power to make others obey the rules. Usually, parents have this jurisdiction. In a country, the national government has jurisdiction with regard to some laws, but state and city governments have jurisdiction with regard to other laws. For example, cities have jurisdiction over where people are allowed to park on the streets. States have jurisdiction over how old you have to be to get married.
State governments have jurisdiction concerning laws about getting a driver's license. In some states, for example, people can get a driver's license at age sixteen or younger, but in other states, people have to be older.- similar words:
- administration, authority, control, right, rule
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jurisdictive (adj.), jurisdictionally (adv.) |
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