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an invisible fence drawn on a map, deadly serious only because everyone agrees to pretend it's real
means The official power or authority a court, government, or body has to make legal decisions and enforce them, usually within a defined territory or over certain matters.
from Straight from Latin: iurisdictio, a tidy fusion of ius, iuris ('law, right') and dictio ('a speaking, a declaration,' from dicere, 'to say'). So at its root, jurisdiction is literally 'the speaking of the law' — the act of pronouncing what is lawful. It traveled through Old French jurediction into English in the medieval period, carrying with it that old sense that authority is, fundamentally, a matter of who gets to speak the law aloud and be obeyed.
- origin
- Latin for the power to speak the law
- high seas
- beyond any nation's reach, crime gets weird fast
- space rule
- astronauts answer to the country that launched them
- forum shopping
- lawyers pick the court most likely to win
- long arm
- some statutes reach defendants states away
international court of justice — un court in the hague with jurisdiction over disputes between 193 member states