legal power

1. 1.

   (law) the right and power to interpret and apply the law

   “courts having jurisdiction in this district”

   Synonymsjurisdiction

   Broaderpower

   law

Questions about legal power

What does legal power mean?

legal power means "(law) the right and power to interpret and apply the law".

What is another word for legal power?

Close synonyms include jurisdiction. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is legal power a common word?

legal power is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.