Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to law.
- adjective Of or relating to rights and obligations.
from The Century Dictionary.
- l. Pertaining to natural or positive right.
- Of or pertaining to jurisprudence.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Pertaining to natural or positive right.
- adjective (Law) Of or pertaining to jurisprudence.
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- adjective law Of or pertaining to
law . - adjective philosophy Of or pertaining to moral
rights andobligations .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to law or to legal rights and obligations
Etymologies
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Examples
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+ Modern civilized states of the best form are often called jural states because the concept of rights enters so largely into all their constitutions and regulations.
Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals William Graham Sumner 1875
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Instead, common-law judges and scholars construed and enforced agreements of various kinds according to several well-understood jural relationships, such as those between principals and agents, masters and servants, landlords and tenants,parents and children, husbands and wives, or bailors and bailees.
Archive 2008-06-01 Dan Ernst 2008
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If you are a bi-jural country with different legal systems, Canada, with the civil law in Quebec and the common law in the other provinces, can help.
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And even if you are not bi-jural, whatever your tradition, civilian or common law, you can find it in Canada.
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It is also an indication of the sphere of jural freedom within which a person is and must be left free.
Antonio Rosmini Cleary, Denis 2001
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The jural judgments of individuals are not complete judgments; they are based upon an undefined sense of right and wrong.
Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926
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While in the law, however, although assiduously addicted to the study of it, his heart acknowledged a divided allegiance with literature; which he seemed to compromise at length by addicting himself to cognate studies -- of political economy, the jural sciences, and political ethics.
Southern Literature From 1579-1895 A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms for the use of schools and the general reader Louise Manly 1896
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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?
A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy William James 1876
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Evidently the higher classes had the most reason to establish the jural consequences.
Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals William Graham Sumner 1875
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The heathen Germans had two kinds of marriage, one with, the other without, jural consequences.
Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals William Graham Sumner 1875
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