There was only one hitch: the small town of Kehl, on the other side of the Rhine, was still under French jurisdiction.

It was not within the jurisdiction of anybody or anything, including Providence and Massachusetts.

If this seems arbitrary, its effect was to treat citizens of the District of Columbia equally with citizens of the states -- at the expense of expanding a troublesome jurisdiction.

To avoid these constitutional difficulties, Mr. Justice Frankfurter was prepared to read the Taft-Hartley provision as concerned with diversity, rather than federal question, jurisdiction.

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.

The nature of an appeal can vary greatly depending on the type of case and the rules of the court in the jurisdiction where the case was prosecuted.

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.

In Egypt, the first home of monasticism, the jurisdiction of the abbot, or archimandrite, was but loosely defined.

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.

To distinguish abbots from bishops, it was ordained that their mitre should be made of less costly materials, and should not be ornamented with gold, a rule which was soon entirely disregarded, and that the crook of their pastoral staff ( the crosier ) should turn inwards instead of outwards, indicating that their jurisdiction was limited to their own house.

When a vacancy occurred, the bishop of the diocese chose the abbot out of the monks of the convent, but the right of election was transferred by jurisdiction to the monks themselves, reserving to the bishop the confirmation of the election and the benediction of the new abbot.

The Irish Free State, whose consent to the Abdication Act was also required, neither gave it nor allowed the British legislation to take effect in the Free State's jurisdiction ; instead, the Irish parliament passed its own Act — the Executive Authority ( External Relations ) Act — the day after the Declaration of Abdication Act took force elsewhere, meaning Edward VIII, for one day, remained King of Ireland while George VI was king of all the other realms.

In 2011 it was reported that only one captive insurance company was formed in the jurisdiction with many dozens choosing to leave on account of the hostile regulatory environment.

Because West Berlin was not officially under the jurisdiction of the Constitution and because of the Cold War, the Bundestag met in Bonn in several different buildings, including ( provisionally ) a former water works facility.

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 ".

The Senate expelled Senator Blount and, after initially hearing his impeachment, dismissed the charges for lack of jurisdiction.

In 1538 the Audiencia Real de Panama, Royal Audiencia of Panama, was established, initially with jurisdiction from Nicaragua to Cape Horn.

In 1902 British forces entered the territory, proclaiming British overrule and jurisdiction in 1903, initially as part of the Transvaal.

The FMC was initially given jurisdiction to hear applications for nullity and dissolution of marriage,

They were initially stationed at Oppidum Ubiorum ( Cologne ) in the jurisdiction that was to become Germania Inferior.

Businesses should consider whether a temporary storage exemption applies to merchandise initially accepted in a jurisdiction with a higher tax rate.

Proper service of process initially establishes personal jurisdiction of the court over the person served.

This is done so that the court which was initially assigned the case may retain jurisdiction over it.

The Tashkent Soviet initially recognized the authority of Kokand, but restricted its jurisdiction to the Muslim old section of Tashkent, and demanded the final say in regional affairs.

The circuit courts, which comprised a district judge and ( initially ) two Supreme Court justices " riding circuit ," had original jurisdiction over serious crimes and civil cases of at least $ 500 involving diversity jurisdiction or the United States as plaintiff.

The Exchequer was unique in having jurisdiction in matters of both equity and the common law, the latter initially curtailed after the Magna Carta and reserved for the Court of King's Bench and Court of Common Pleas, although it later grew back.

The court was initially less important than the various State commissions, which had jurisdiction over all disputes which occurred within states.

Spamhaus initially hired an American law firm, which had the case moved from the state court to the U. S. Federal District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, but then ( on the advice of its British lawyers ) objected to the lawsuit altogether on the grounds that Spamhaus, being based in the United Kingdom, was outside the jurisdiction of United States courts.

However, Spamhaus was deemed by the court to have " technically accepted jurisdiction " by having initially responded at all, and the judge, angry at Spamhaus having walked out of his court, awarded e360 a default judgement totaling $ 11, 715, 000 in damages.

The High Court of Delhi initially exercised jurisdiction not only over the Union Territory of Delhi, but also Himachal Pradesh.

The jurisdiction of the Prefecture of Police was initially the Seine département.

Although the vast majority of this fallout is deposited in the general area of the test, it also produces a small but measurable radioactive plume, which in Chagan's case was detected over Japan and initially prompted complaints from the US that the Soviets were violating the provisions of the October 1963 Limited Test Ban Treaty, which banned atmospheric tests and any vented ( or " open ") subsurface detonation which caused " radioactive debris to be present outside the territorial limits of the State under whose jurisdiction or control such explosion is conducted.

Apparently because the Deepwater Railway in West Virginia and Tidewater Railway in Virginia were each under the jurisdiction of their respective states, an association between the two little railroads was not identified initially by the various lawyers for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway and the Norfolk and Western Railway.

Three DCAs were initially created, with the Third District Court of Appeal was given jurisdiction over cases arising from Dade and Monroe counties.

The Roman Catholic Church in Singapore was initially under the jurisdiction of the Diocese of Malacca erected in 1558.

The Court noted that, for the district court to have heard the case would have been an exercise of appellate jurisdiction ; but the U. S. Congress has only granted the district courts original jurisdiction to hear cases arising under the Constitution and laws of the United States, meaning that they can only hear claims that were initially brought in or removed to the district court.

The right to file an appeal can also vary from state to state ; for example, the New Jersey Constitution vests judicial power in a Supreme Court, a Superior Court, and other courts of limited jurisdiction, with an appellate court being part of the Superior Court.

Depending on the system, certain courts may serve as both trial courts and appellate courts, hearing appeals of decisions made by courts with more limited jurisdiction.

The jurisdiction of a body that is a creature of statute is also therefore limited to the functional scope written into the laws that created that body.

For example, EPA's jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act is limited to " waters of the United States ".

The Federal Courts are courts of limited jurisdiction, meaning that they can only exercise the powers that are granted to them by the Constitution and Federal Laws.

Many building codes specify basic foundation design parameters for simple conditions, frequently varying by jurisdiction, but such design techniques are normally limited to certain types of construction and certain types of sites, and are frequently very conservative.

If the executive or legislative powers within the jurisdiction are not restricted or restricted only by a number of limited restrictions, these government branches have plenary power such as a national policing power.

A court whose subject-matter jurisdiction is limited to certain types of controversies ( for example, suits in admiralty or suits where the monetary amount sought is less than a specified sum ) is sometimes referred to as a court of special jurisdiction or court of limited jurisdiction.

A court whose subject-matter is not limited to certain types of controversy is referred to as a court of general jurisdiction.

In the U. S. states, each state has courts of general jurisdiction ; most states also have some courts of limited jurisdiction.

Federal courts ( those operated by the federal government ) are courts of limited jurisdiction.

Their jurisdiction is limited to the Earth-Moon system ; other human colonies have their own militia.

Law enforcement agencies tend to be limited to operating within a specified jurisdiction.

However, their jurisdiction is sharply limited in penal matters, as some elements of the customary justice system, including the use of corporal punishment, are seen as clashing with the human rights obligations of France.

Judges only have limited jurisdiction over arbitration issues.

For example, if two people own a single piece of land as joint tenants then, depending on the law in the jurisdiction, each may have limited recourse for the actions of the other.

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 common law courts originally took a very limited view of their own jurisdiction.