jural
Americanadjective
-
pertaining to law; legal.
-
of or relating to rights and obligations.
adjective
-
of or relating to law or to the administration of justice
-
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
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Unquestionably, many jural phenomena lie behind these codes and preceded them in point of time.
From Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society by Sir Henry Sumner Maine
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 Roscoe Pound
From the notion of sin—treated in its jural aspect—Aquinas passes naturally to the discussion of Law.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various
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 Essays in Radical Empiricism by William James
Thus the jural form in which morality was conceived only emphasized the fundamental difference between it and the laws of the state.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
