Province
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Sometimes this signifies the district into which a country has been divided; as, the province of Canterbury, in England; the province of Languedoc, in France. Sometimes it means a dependency or colony, as the province of New Brunswick. It is sometimes used figuratively to signify power or authority; as, it is the province of the court to judge of the law, that of the jury to decide on the facts.