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

From the notion of sin—treated in its jural aspect—Aquinas passes naturally to the discussion of Law.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various

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

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 Oppenheim, L. (Lassa)

This is a jural postulate of civilized society as we know it.

From An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law by Pound, Roscoe