Definition of "jurisdictive" []

• Jurisdictional (adjective)

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• "Most political theorists agreed with Thomas Aquinas in saying that a civil lord who supposed that his jurisdictive authority arose from property ownership rather than from a constitution would be a tyrant (Summa Theologiae IaIIae, Q. 56, a. 5; Q. 58, a. 2)."
• "By the beginning of the fourteenth century, dominium largely connoted property ownership, though this usually entailed jurisdictive authority."
• "Likewise, one can read him as having so separated secular political authority from the rule of love as to make political and ecclesiastical jurisdictive authority utterly distinct."