The power and au-thority constitutionally conferred upon (or constitutionally recognized as existing iu^ a court or judge to pronounce the sentence of the law, or to award the remedies provided by law, upon a state of facts, proved or ad-mltted, referred to the tribunal for declslou, and authorized by law to be the subject of investigation or action by that tribunal, and in favor of or against persons (or a res) who present themselves, or who are brought, be-fore the court ln some manner sanctioned by law as proper and sufficient. 1 Black, Judgm. i 215. And Bee Nenno v. Rallroad Co., 105 Mo. App. 540, 80 S. W. 24; Ingram v. Fuson, 118 Ky. 882, 82 8. W. 606; Tod v. Crisman, 123 Iowa, 693, 99 N. W. 686; Harrigan v. Gilchrist, 121 wis. 127, 99 N. W. 909; wight-man v. Karsner, 20 Ala. 451; Reynolds v. Stockton, 140 U. S. 254, 11 Sup. Ct. 773, 35 L. Ed. 464; Templeton v. Ferguson, 89 Tex. 47, 33 S. W. 329; Succession of weigel, 17 La. Ann. 70