jurisdiction, management, rule, sway

(a matter) to be in one's power or jurisdiction or subject to one's authority

optional, under one's control

marital authority

will to love

right to be heard

to choose, elect, adopt, to observe, approve of

be invested with power or authority

have authority or power, be entitled, be authorised

absolute authority

legal authority

jurisdiction

summary power or jurisdiction

the right to choose or differentiate between two contrasting things

illegal power

right of way or passage

bridle of will

take up one's abode, stay

flee, escape

to entrust, give into one's possession

independent, free agent, unrestrained

one in authority, one who possesses authority, autonomous

without control or authority, without choice or election, beyond control, helplessness, powerless, want of power

beauty of selection, preference, free will

opposed to authority, unwarranted, not authorized

one possessed of free election or option, a sovereign, one invested with authority or power

the reins of power

the issue of man's ability or compulsion, which has been a difference between scholars and theologians

accept servitude

ultra vires, beyond one's powers or authority