Jurisdiction

The power and authority constitutionally conferred upon (or constitutionally recognized as existing in) a conrt or judge to pronounce the sentence of the law, or to award the remedies provided by law, upon a state of facts, proved or admitted, referred to the tribunul for decision, and authorized by law to be the subject of investigation or action by that tribunal, and in favor of or against persons (or a ves) who present themselves, or who are brougi:t, befure the court in some manner sanctioned by law as proper and suilicient.

1 Black, Judgm. § 215.

Jurisdiction is a power constitutionally conferred upon a judge or magistrate to take cognizance of and determine causes according to law, and to carry his sentence into execution, 6 Pet. 591; 9 Johns. 239; 2 Neb. 185. The authority of a court ds distinguished from the other departments; judicial power considered with reference to its scope and extent as respects the questions and persons subject to it; power given by law to hear and decide controversies.

Abbott.

Jurisdiction is the power to hear and determine the subject-matter in controversy between parties to the suit; to adjudicate or exercise any judicial power over them, 12 Pet. 657, 717. Jurisdiction is the power to hear and determines a cause; the authority by which judicial officers take cognizance of and decide canses. 43 Tex. 440. tended to give jurisdiction of the suit to the court, by a general averment that the acts complained of are contrary to equity, and tend to the injury of the complainant, and that he has no remedy, or not a complete remedy, without the assistance of a court of equity, is called tho “jurisdiction clause.”

Milf. Eq. Pl. 43. Fy