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Example sentences for: jurisdiction

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It represents "the birth of an effective universal jurisdiction for dealing with crimes against humanity and, at the same time, an unequivocal warning that the United Kingdom will not be a refuge for blood-stained dictators."
In an alternative version of the postbellum legal order, also based on the value of nationhood, Charles Black stresses the reliance on national citizenship in the first sentence of the Fourteenth Amendment: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”
Since the Constitution only permitted the national government to regulate "commerce," whole areas of economic life were outside federal jurisdiction.
6) This whole argument about the "relevant jurisdiction" is new since Brill's article.
The jurisdiction is none of your business.