jural

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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

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

In the consciousness of the individual there exists no standard of right and wrong under which every single circumstance giving rise to the formation of a jural judgment can be subsumed.

From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Park, Robert Ezra

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

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.

From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham