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jurisdicción.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
jurisdicción.
Principal English Translation: 

jurisdiction
(a loanword from Spanish, jurisdicción)

Orthographic Variants: 
jurisdiccion
Attestations from sources in English: 

nuJuridicio metepec = my juristiction Metepec (San Pablo Tepemaxalco, Toluca Valley, 1736)
Caterina Pizzigoni, ed., Testaments of Toluca (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2007), 158.

nudotrina Sr S pedro y S pablo Calimaya nu juridicio metepec (Calimaya, 1759)
AGN Civil 664, exp. 2, f. 39r. Research by Stephanie Wood.

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