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• n., 1. Power or right to enforce obedience or to influence the conduct and actions of others. 2. A statute, case or text cited in support of a legal opinion or argument. 3. A legal power given by one person to another to do some act. 4. Body given powers by statute to oversee or carry out a government function. 5. “…’[J]urisdiction’…” [The Dictionary of Canadian Law, 3rd ed. c2004]
• n., 1. The authorization, permission, power, or right to act on another’s behalf and to bind them by such actions. 2. The right or power to command, govern, or enforce obedience. 3. A legal writing, such as a judicial decision, law review article or legal treatise, or a statute’s legislative history that provides information or insight on how to interpret and apply the law. [Webster’s New World Law Dictionary. c2006]
• n., 1. The right or permission to act legally on another’s behalf; esp., the power of one person to affect another’s legal relations by acts done in accordance with the other’s manifestations of assent; the power delegated by a principal to an agent. 2. Governmental power or jurisdiction. 3. A governmental agency or corporation that administers a public enterprise. 4. A legal writing taken as definitive or decisive; esp., a judicial or administrative decision cited as a precedent. [Black’s Law Dictionary, 8th ed. c2004]
• n., The right or permission to act legally on another’s behalf; esp., the power of one person to affect another’s legal relations by acts done in accordance with the other’s manifestations of assent; the power delegated by a principal to an agent.