- in
different jurisdictions, and
between courts within the same
jurisdiction. The
usual legal doctrine under which questions of
jurisdiction are decided...
-
concurrent jurisdiction (or non-exclusive
jurisdiction) in
which more than one
court may take
jurisdiction over the case.
Exclusive jurisdiction is typically...
-
states are
usually single jurisdictions, but the
United Kingdom is a
notable exception since it has
three separate jurisdictions because of its
three separate...
-
Heritable jurisdictions were, in the law of Scotland,
grants of
jurisdiction made to a man and his heirs. They were a
usual accompaniment to
feudal tenures...
-
Utrecht University,
noted that a
state ****erting
jurisdiction over
crimes committed in
other jurisdictions would still prosecute in the state's own territorial...
-
varies between jurisdictions. In general,
contract law is
exercised and
governed either under common law
jurisdictions,
civil law
jurisdictions, or mixed-law...
- Law Dictionary, 10th ed,
contrasts "common law"
jurisdictions from "civil law" or "code"
jurisdictions. This
connotation of
common law is "the body of...
- law,
jurisdiction-stripping (also
called court-stripping or curtailment-of-
jurisdiction) is the
limiting or
reducing of a court's
jurisdiction by Congress...
-
Personal jurisdiction is a court's
jurisdiction over the parties, as
determined by the
facts in evidence,
which bind the
parties to a lawsuit, as opposed...
-
Jurisdictional arbitrage is the
practice of
taking advantage of
discrepancies between competing legal jurisdictions. It
takes its name from arbitrage...
