jural

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 Sumner, William Graham

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

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

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

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