Jurisdiction vs Parliament - What's the difference?
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The power, right, or authority to interpret and apply the law.
The power or right to exercise authority.
The authority of a sovereign power to govern or legislate.
The limits or territory within which authority may be exercised.
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# An institution whose elected or appointed members meet to debate the major political issues of the day and usually to exercise legislative powers and sometimes judicial powers.
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# A group of representatives of the people elected or appointed to serve as a parliament (in sense 1 above)'' for a certain period of time. In this sense the word is commonly used with an ordinal number (for example, ''first parliament'' and ''12th parliament'') or a descriptive adjective (for example, ''(Long Parliament)'', ''(Short Parliament)'' and ''(Rump Parliament) ).
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A collective noun for a flock of owls or rooks.
(historical) Parliament cake; a type of gingerbread.
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As a noun jurisdiction
is the power, right, or authority to interpret and apply the law.As a proper noun parliament is
any of several parliaments of various countries.jurisdiction
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(wikipedia jurisdiction)Noun
(en noun)T time, passage=The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them
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(wikipedia parliament)Noun
(en noun)- Following the general election, Jane Doe took her oath of office as a member of the nation's fifth parliament .
- A certain boy leaning up against me would not allow my elbow room, and struck me very sadly in the stomach part, though his own was full of my parliament .