Word Meanings - CONSTABLERY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The constabulary. 2. The distrit or jurisdiction of a constable.

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• CONSTABLESS
  The wife of a constable.
• JURISDICTION
  The legal power, right, or authority of a particular court to hear and determine causes, to try criminals, or to execute justice; judicial authority over a cause or class of causes; as, certain suits or actions, or the cognizance of certain crimes,
• CONSTABLE
  sense 1), OF. conestable, F. conn, LL. conestabulus, constabularius, comes stabuli, orig., count of the stable, master of the horse, equerry; comes ount + L. stabulum stable. See Count a 1. A high officer in the monarhical establishments of the
• CONSTABLESHIP
  The office or functions of a constable.
• JURISDICTIONAL
  Of or pertaining to jurisdiction; as jurisdictional rights. Barrow.
• CONSTABULARY
  Of or pertaining to constables; consisting of constables.
• CONSTABLERY
  1. The constabulary. 2. The distrit or jurisdiction of a constable.
• CONSTABLEWICK
  The district to which a constable's power is limited. Sir M. Hale.