jural
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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 William Graham Sumner
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
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
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
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