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What is a purview?

What is a purview? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (law) The enacting part of a statute.
  2. (law) The scope of a statute.
  3. Scope or range of interest or control.
  4. Range of understanding.
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The dramatization of real-life events has tended to become the purview of the makers of the made-for-television movie.
The question of awards and damages should be the purview of state legislators.
The selection of people to be placed under observation is entirely within the purview of the investigating police officers.
Once he does that, their behaviours no longer fall under the purview of evolutionary theory, as it is not generally concerned with pathology.
It was not pressed with any force by Mr Blades, and is not within the purview of Boyd's leave to appeal granted by us.
Such a survey, while readily extractable from the extensive scholarship on modern China, is clearly beyond the purview of this essay.

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