Roget's Thesaurus

#965. Jurisdiction

Nouns

jurisdiction, judicature, administration of justice, soc; executive, commission of the peace; magistracy etc. (authority) 737. judge etc. 967; tribunal etc. 966; municipality, corporation, bailiwick, shrievalty [Brit.]; lord lieutenant, sheriff, shire reeve, shrieve, constable; selectman; police, police force, the fuzz [Sarc.]; constabulary, bumbledom, gendarmerie [Fr.]. officer, bailiff, tipstaff, bum-bailiff, catchpoll, beadle; policeman, cop [Coll.], police constable, police sergeant; sbirro, alguazil, gendarme, kavass, lictor, mace bearer, huissier [Fr.], bedel; tithingman. press gang; exciseman, gauger, gager, customhouse officer, douanier [Fr.]. coroner, edile, aedile, portreeve, paritor; posse comitatus [Lat.]. bureau, cutcherry, department, secretariat. [extension of jurisdiction] long arm of the law, extradition.

Verbs

judge, sit in judgment; extradite.

Adjectives

executive, administrative, municipal; inquisitorial, causidical; judicatory, judiciary, judicial; juridical.

Adverbs

coram judice [Lat.].