jural
Example Sentences
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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 Roscoe Pound
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
Unquestionably, many jural phenomena lie behind these codes and preceded them in point of time.
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
Not jural but peaceable settlement of disputes is the motto of these men; they do not desiderate justice in the sense of existing law, but equity such as contents both parties.
From The Future of International Law by L. (Lassa) Oppenheim
