jural
Example Sentences
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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
In this they may be right as regards a real arbitral decision given ex aequo et bono, but their arguments lose all force before the nakedly jural decision of a real court.
From The Future of International Law by L. (Lassa) Oppenheim
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 Roscoe Pound
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
Evidently the higher classes had the most reason to establish the jural consequences.
From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by William Graham Sumner
