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summary jurisdiction en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Etymology

Compound of summary + jurisdiction.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The authority of a court of law to summarily issue a conviction, typically for a petty crime, without requiring a trial by jury.
    • […] I would (so far as regards children under fourteen years) take from magistrates their present power of summary jurisdiction, and substitute very extensive powers of a different nature ; […] 1849, John Adams, Summary Jurisdiction: A Charge to the Grand Jury of the Quarter Sessions of the County of Middlesex, page 17: