Plenitudo potestatis was a term employed by medieval canonists to describe the jurisdictional power of the papacy.

The two principal shareholders exercised very restricted joint jurisdictional powers through a judicial kamdar.

Tribal court authority has been altered by the U.S. government for decades, affecting jurisdictional powers.

Independence: courts and tribunals are independent of all authority or people in the exercise of jurisdictional power.

They don't have political, electoral or jurisdictional power whatsoever, so citizens living in a metropolitan region do not elect representatives for them.

Compacts do require that tribes cede some jurisdictional powers to state governments.

The solution, obviously, is to give the Court of Auditors jurisdictional power and adequate human and material resources to take on this role.

Within this same jurisdictional power is that to hear cases involving citizens of different states, as well as territorial disputes.

The amendment resolved a protracted and contentious legal dispute that had pitted the state's jurisdictional powers against private ownership rights.

The dispute illustrates how jurisdictional power struggles continue to stymie attempts to expand the state's court system.