JURISDICTION
According to Peter Stephen Du Ponceau, an international lawyer from Philadelphia, Jurisdiction, in its most general sense means;
"The power to make, declare, or apply the law. When confined to the judiciary department, it is what we denominate the judicial power, the right of administering justice through the laws, by the means which the laws have provided for that purpose. Jurisdiction is limited to place or territory, to persons, or to particular subjects".