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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The heathen Germans had two kinds of marriage, one with, the other without, jural consequences.
From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by William Graham Sumner
If by any means we can determine the early forms of jural conceptions, they will be invaluable to us.
From Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society by Sir Henry Sumner Maine
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
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 A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy by William James
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