domestic jurisdiction

collocation in English

meaningsofdomesticandjurisdiction

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domestic
adjective
uk
/dəˈmes.tɪk/us
/dəˈmes.tɪk/
relating to a person's ...
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jurisdiction
noun[U]
uk
/ˌdʒʊə.rɪsˈdɪk.ʃən/us
/ˌdʒʊr.ɪsˈdɪk.ʃən/
the authority of a court or official organization to make decisions and ...
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(Definition ofdomesticandjurisdictionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdomestic jurisdiction

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Nobody wants any interference by courts of law with these committees, who are exercisingdomesticjurisdiction.
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Secondly, they form a basis for obtaining remedies in thedomesticjurisdiction.
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It is basically a question ofdomesticjurisdiction, and it is not possible for us to make representations on matters of this kind.
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This matter ofdomesticjurisdictionis of great importance.
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The time is long overdue for a system of family courts to be set up, combining the whole family law anddomesticjurisdiction.
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Only if thedomesticjurisdiction, namely our own, is unable or unwilling to take jurisdiction will the international criminal court feature at all.
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This question ofdomesticjurisdictionis really one of great difficulty.
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The question is the effect ondomesticjurisdictionof incorporating such vague principles.
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How can one possibly have any system of inspection that will work without some interference with national sovereignty and without some interference withdomesticjurisdiction?
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These are matters ofdomesticjurisdiction, but, on the other hand, they are matters upon which public opinion in this country is always sensitive.
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So far as self-governing territories are concerned, this is essentially a question ofdomesticjurisdiction.
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The review of family anddomesticjurisdictionis being undertaken by officials.
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I refer to the future of the matrimonial courts, the magistrates'domesticjurisdiction.
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Such an appeal has been unique to this area ofdomesticjurisdictionand has been an accident of history.
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We can no longer treat these aspects of the basic liberty of the individual as matters of purelydomesticjurisdiction.
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The waiting areas available in courts are grotesquely indequate for dealing with this form ofdomesticjurisdiction.
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That is why, basically, this is not a matter ofdomesticjurisdiction.
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One is that we have departed in this tremendously important matter from a readiness to consider it simply as a matter ofdomesticjurisdiction.
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I cannot comment officially on any individual cases or policies which are wholly within thedomesticjurisdictionof a particular country.
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It would invadedomesticjurisdictionwith respect to extradition, habeas corpus and trial by jury.
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