It is one of the treaties that confer jurisdiction on the International Court of Justice.

The Court of Appeals explicitly declined to address the due process issue, because the long-arm statute did not confer personal jurisdiction.

Section 75 of the Constitution confers original jurisdiction in regard to "all matters":

Section 76 provides that Parliament may confer original jurisdiction in relation to matters:

This is no doubt the reason that the Utah Legislature conferred original jurisdiction in both criminal and civil cases to the probate courts in 1852.

Issues of Medicare, Medicaid and taxes confer jurisdiction.

The Fair Housing Act confers jurisdiction to hear cases on federal district courts.

Subsequent articles allow forum selection clauses and other forms of agreement between the parties to confer jurisdiction on a given forum.

During its first two decades, nearly 200 treaties were forged in which the signers conferred jurisdiction of disputes to the court.

It does so by establishing an outer limit of the types of matters within which Congress may constitutionally confer jurisdiction.