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noun

Purview n.

(a)

(Law) The body of a statute, or that part which begins with " Be it enacted, " as distinguished from the preamble.

(b)

Hence: The limit or scope of a statute; the whole extent of its intention or provisions. "Profanations within the purview of several statutes."

Limit or sphere of authority; scope; extent. "In determining the extent of information required in the exercise of a particular authority, recourse must be had to the objects within the purview of that authority."

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"Purview" Quotes from Famous Books

... the 16-pound hammer head, 100 feet 5 inches (Queckberner); for putting the 16-pound shot, 49 feet 6 inches (Coe, 1905); the standing high jump, 5 feet 5-1/2 inches (Ewry); for the running high jump, 6 feet 5-5/8 inches (Sweeney). We also find that if we extend our purview to include all kinds of records for physical achievement, that not a few of the amateur records for activities involving strength combined with rapid rhythm movement are held by young men of ...

— Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene • G. Stanley Hall

... agreed in the Bill of 1886, and as we all agreed in the Bill of 1893, that the power of dealing with some of the most vital of Irish questions should not come within the purview of the new Parliament for a definite number of years." The control of police, for instance, was reserved to the Imperial Parliament in all those Bills for a term of years. But this did not mean that Parnell or we abandoned Ireland's right to manage ...

— John Redmond's Last Years • Stephen Gwynn

... lie within the purview of the present narrative to enter into a consideration of the arguments of the two schools, ...

— The Historical Nights' Entertainment • Rafael Sabatini

... excused himself from pronouncing a definite opinion on the subject, but pointed out that it would doubtless come within the purview of the inquiry into Spiritualism undertaken by high ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, March 3rd, 1920 • Various

... of unfortunates who populate our prisons, poorhouses and reformatories. It is now being universally recognized that the pauper, the prostitute, and the criminal classes are primarily products of mental defect and degeneracy and as such must come within the purview of mental medicine. This being the case, the same truisms which apply to the insane in general must likewise ...

— Studies in Forensic Psychiatry • Bernard Glueck

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