Kerly suggests that many complaints from the Commons came from lawyers of the common law, aggrieved at the Chancery's extended jurisdiction that overlapped with that of the common law.

The common law courts did not recognise such trusts, and so it fell to equity and to the Court of Chancery to deal with them, as befitting the common principle that the Chancery's jurisdiction was for matters where the common law courts could neither enforce a right nor administer it.

Lord Hardwicke, however, claimed that the Chancery's jurisdiction to award damages was not derived " from any authority, but from conscience ", and rather than being statutory was instead due to the Lord Chancellor's inherent authority.

Many lawyers admitted that the uses made fraud easy and open, and in addition the lawyers of the common law were jealous of the Court of Chancery's equitable jurisdiction, and sought to strip it away.

While the main burden in the 16th century fell on the ecclesiastical courts, their powers over administrators and executors was limited, regularly necessitating the Court of Chancery's involvement.

Marsh writes that another reason for the Chancery's growing influence was the remedies available ; through orders of specific performance and injunctions, the Court could not only rectify previous wrongs but prevent future wrongs from occurring, while the common law courts were limited to awarding damages.

According to William Carne, Thomas Egerton was the first " proper " Lord Chancellor from the Court of Chancery's point of view, having recorded his decisions and followed the legal doctrine of precedent.

In 1813 a Vice-Chancellor was appointed to deal with the Chancery's increasing backlogs, and two more were appointed in 1841.

He was the equivalent of the Court of Chancery's Master of the Rolls, in that he headed up the clerical side of the court.

Thomas Egerton, 1st Viscount Brackley | Lord Ellesmere, who worked to maintain the Chancery's ability to override the common law courts as Lord Chancellor

The Court of Chancery's reputation for tardiness and expense resulted in much of its business transferring to the Exchequer.

Many critics were barristers of the common law, ignorant of the court's workings, but some, such as Sir Samuel Romilly, had trained as a Chancery advocate and were well aware of the Chancery's procedure.

The Taft-Hartley Act gave the federal courts jurisdiction over `` suits for violation of contracts between an employer and a labor organization representing employees in an industry affecting commerce ''.

or ( 3 ) exclusion of state court jurisdiction over these matters ''.

Does Lincoln Mills suggest that if Congress granted jurisdiction over interstate divorce cases, the federal courts would be authorized to fashion a national law for the dissolution of marriages??

However, the Attorney General of California, at the request of the Secretary of Labor, sought to have the jurisdiction over the issue removed to the Federal District Court, on grounds that it was predominantly a Federal issue since the validity of the Secretary's Regulation was being challenged.

In 1787 a bishop of Nova Scotia was appointed with a jurisdiction over all of British North America ; in time several more colleagues were appointed to other cities in present-day Canada.

By the Rule of St Benedict, which, until the Cluniac reforms, was the norm in the West, the abbot has jurisdiction over only one community.

The rule, as was inevitable, was subject to frequent violations ; but it was not until the foundation of the Cluniac Order that the idea of a supreme abbot, exercising jurisdiction over all the houses of an order, was definitely recognized.

* Article 8 – Allows for jurisdiction over observers and scientists by their own states ;

Abbesses are, like abbots, major superiors according to canon law, the equivalents of abbots or bishops ( the ordained male members of the church hierarchy who have, by right of their own office, executive jurisdiction over a building, diocesan territory, or a communal or non-communal group of persons — juridical entities under church law ).

John of Worcester also claims that at Wulfstan's consecration, Stigand, the archbishop of Canterbury extracted a promise from Ealdred that neither he nor his successors would lay claim to any jurisdiction over the diocese of Worcester.

The Archbishop of Canterbury exercises metropolitical ( or supervisory ) jurisdiction over the Province of Canterbury, which encompasses thirty of the forty-four dioceses of the Church of England, with the rest falling within the Province of York.

Within five days after the beginning of their terms, the four Aediles ( two Plebeian, two Curule ) were required to determine, by lot or by agreement among themselves, what parts of the city each should hold jurisdiction over.

For three hundred years, beginning with bishop Ansgar, the Hamburg-Bremen archbishopric had been designated as the " Mission of the North " and had jurisdiction over all missions in Scandinavia, North-Western Russia, Iceland and Greenland.

In the Ottoman Empire, the Patriarch of Constantinople, for example, had de facto administrative, fiscal, cultural and legal jurisdiction, as well as spiritual, over all the Christians of the empire.

At the Fourth Ecumenical Council at Chalcedon in 451, Constantinople was given jurisdiction over three dioceses for the reason that the city was " the residence of the emperor and senate ".

While most patriarchs in the Eastern Catholic Churches have jurisdiction over a " ritual church " ( a group or diocese of a particular Eastern tradition ), all Latin Rite patriarchs, except for the Pope, have only honorary titles.

Sometimes this carries jurisdiction over metropolitan bishops, but usually it is purely honorific.

; Metropolitan bishop: A metropolitan bishop is an archbishop in charge of an ecclesiastical province, or group of dioceses, and in addition to having immediate jurisdiction over his own archdiocese, also exercises some oversight over the other dioceses within that province.

Leaders of individual states and regions are Administrative Bishops, who have jurisdiction over local churches in their respective states and are vested with appointment authority for local pastorates.

Today the terms " Order of Saint Benedict " and " Benedictine Order " are also used frequently to refer to the total of the independent Benedictine abbeys, thereby giving the wrong impression of a " generalate " or " motherhouse " with jurisdiction over dependent communities.

Benedictine abbots and abbesses have full jurisdiction of their abbey and thus absolute authority over the monks or nuns who are resident.

The Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) is the principal healthcare regulatory authority in the United States, having jurisdiction over medical devices, drugs, biologics, and combination products.

Whether Henry actually intended to bring about the assassination of Becket is debatable, but there is no question that at the time of the murder, the two men were embroiled in a bitter dispute regarding the power of Royal Courts to exercise jurisdiction over former clergymen.

When a constitution establishes a federal state, it will identify the several levels of government coexisting with exclusive or shared areas of jurisdiction over lawmaking, application and enforcement.

The Chancery had jurisdiction over all matters of equity, including trusts, land law, the administration of the estates of lunatics and the guardianship of infants.

This jurisdiction applied to any " idiots " or " lunatics ", regardless of whether or not they were British, or whether their land was within England and Wales.

" He points to the fact that the Pope claims universal jurisdiction and he therefore argues that " it would be intolerable to have, as the sovereign of a Protestant and free country, one who owes any allegiance to the head of any other state " and contends that if such situation came about " we will have undone centuries of common law.

The diocese was originally a suffragan of Mainz, but in 968 it came under the archiepiscopal jurisdiction of Magdeburg.

Further to the north, Saint-Barthélemy and the northern French part of Saint Martin once came under the jurisdiction of Guadeloupe but on 7 December 2003, both of these areas voted to become an overseas territorial collectivity, a decision which took effect on 22 February 2007.

The islands came under the jurisdiction of the United States following the Reciprocity Treaty of 1875 with Hawaii.

This came under the jurisdiction of the County Palatine of Durham until the Counties ( Detached Parts ) Act 1844.

During the Qin Dynasty ( 221 – 206 BC ), the region came under the jurisdiction of Panyu County, Nanhai Prefecture of the province of Guangdong.

There do exist checks on the prime minister's power: parliament may revoke its confidence in an incumbent prime minister ; cabinet or caucus revolts can quickly bring down a sitting premier, and even mere threats of such action can persuade and / or compel a prime minister to resign his post, as happened with Jean Chrétien ; the Senate may delay or impede legislation put forward by the Cabinet, such as when Brian Mulroney's bill creating the Goods and Services Tax ( GST ) came before the upper chamber ; and, given Canada's federal nature, the jurisdiction of the federal government is limited to areas prescribed by the constitution.

The Court's mandatory jurisdiction came from three sources ; the Optional Clause of the League of Nations, general international conventions and special bipartite international treaties.

However, as dealings with foreigners became increasingly complicated and frequent, the office grew in size and importance, aided by revenue from customs duties which came under its direct jurisdiction.

In the subsequent century, St. Gall came into conflict with the nearby Bishopric of Constance which had recently acquired jurisdiction over the Abbey of Reichenau on Lake Constance.

As federal criminal jurisdiction expanded to include other areas, such as narcotics, more questions about the Fourth Amendment came to the Supreme Court.

Other provinces corresponding to modern Ecuador, the eastern and southern parts of today's Venezuela, and Panama came together in a political unit under the jurisdiction of Bogotá, confirming that city as one of the principal administrative centers of the Spanish possessions in the New World, along with Lima and Mexico City.

It historically formed an ancient borough in the county of Surrey, made up of a number of parishes, which increasingly came under the influence and jurisdiction of the City of London.

After the end of the Mycenaean period, Ithaca's influence diminished, and it came under the jurisdiction of the nearest large island.

In 1226 Lebus Land came under direct jurisdiction of the Holy Roman Empire, and around 1250 it was acquired by the Ascanian margraves of Brandenburg.

Their cure ( care and jurisdiction ) included, or came to include, the grain supply ( annona ) and later the plebeian grain doles ( frumentationes ), the organisation and management of public games in general, and the maintenance of Rome's streets and public buildings.

The city came again under papal jurisdiction under the rule of Pope Pius II ( 1458 – 1464 ).

The relevant provisions of the bill were repealed, and the jurisdiction of the House of Lords came to be regulated under the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876.

The coroner's jurisdiction is limited to determining who the deceased was and how, when and where they came by their death.

On October 1, 1979, this site came under Tactical Air Command jurisdiction with the inactivation of Aerospace Defense Command and the formation of ADTAC.

In 1661, Weehawken become part of Bergen when it ( and most of northeastern New Jersey ) came under the jurisdiction of the court at Bergen Square.

Thus, Plymouth landowners who could establish their chain of title retained ownership of their land, but came under the jurisdiction of Pennsylvania.

In common law, a " Gretna Green marriage " came to mean, in general, a marriage transacted in a jurisdiction that was not the residence of the parties being married, to avoid restrictions or procedures imposed by the parties ' home jurisdiction.

A small peninsula of land on the east bank also came under the same jurisdiction on what is now Sheriff Brae / Sheriff Bank.