offenses; the authority by which judicial officers take cognizance of and decide criminal cases. Ellison y. State, 125 Ind. 492, 24 N. E. 439; In re City of Buffalo, 189 N. Y. 422, 34 N. E. 1103.—Equity jurisdiction. In a general sense, the jurisdiction belonging to a court of equity, but more particularly the aggregate of those cases, controversies, and occasions which form proper subjects for the exercise of the powers of a chancery court. See Anderson v.