[ noun ] the range of interest or activity that can be anticipated <noun.attribute> It is beyond the horizon of present knowledge
Purview \Pur"view\, n. [OF. purveu, pourveu, F. pourvu, provided, p. p. of OF. porveoir, F. pourvoir. See {Purvey}, {View}, and cf. {Proviso}.] 1. (a) (Law) The body of a statute, or that part which begins with `` Be it enacted, '' as distinguished from the preamble. --Cowell. (b) Hence: The limit or scope of a statute; the whole extent of its intention or provisions. --Marshall.
Profanations within the purview of several statutes. --Bacon.
2. 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. --Madison.
The court has removed entire congeries of legal issues, such as those pertaining to the legality of state search warrants from federal habeas corpus purview.
The privacy provisions, I think, apply essentially to the people who were interviewed, and I don't think it's within the purview of my power to waive anything.
"There was enough there to cause a suspicion" that Col. North was conducting investigations "outside his purview," Mr. Revell recalled.
Often brutalized by their own governments and subjected to egregious human rights abuses, they usually fall out of the purview of international relief efforts.
America's mainline faiths, mostly missing from television's sweeping purview in recent years, are launching a new, unprecedented ecumenical network on the nation's cable TV systems.
However, the decision is a major setback to the Fed's moves in recent years to expand the purview of its regulation from the holding company to the entire banking organization.