jural
Americanadjective
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pertaining to law; legal.
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of or relating to rights and obligations.
adjective
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of or relating to law or to the administration of justice
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of or relating to rights and obligations
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of jural
1625–35; < Latin jūr- (stem of jūs ) law + -al 1
Example Sentences
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But, if so, in what can the jural existence consist, if not in a spiritual miniature of the whole fact's constitution actuating; every partial factor as its purpose?
From A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy by James, William
The part played by jurists in French history, and the sphere of jural conceptions in French thought, have always been remarkably large.
From Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society by Maine, Henry Sumner, Sir
Woolsey says that "a slave sojourning to a free land cannot be treated as his master's property—as destitute of jural capacity."
From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920 by Various
Legislation and the edict, so far as they had any more than a positive foundation of political authority, were but imperfect and ephemeral copies of this jural reality.
From An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law by Pound, Roscoe
Suppose that instead of beginning with the individual free will we begin with the wants or claims involved in civilized society—as it has been put, with the jural postulates of civilized society.
From An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law by Pound, Roscoe
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