jural

[ joor-uhl ]

adjective

1. pertaining to law; legal.
2. of or relating to rights and obligations.

jural

/ ˈdʒʊərəl /

adjective

1. of or relating to law or to the administration of justice
2. of or relating to rights and obligations

Derived Forms

• ˈjurally, adverb

Other Words From

• jural·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of jural¹

1625–35; < Latin jūr- (stem of jūs ) law + -al ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of jural¹

C17: from Latin iūs law + -al ¹

Example Sentences

Thus the jural form in which morality was conceived only emphasized the fundamental difference between it and the laws of the state.

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Each State Legislature is a little political academy for the advancement of jural science and art.

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It has actually happened that a state has not ventured to submit a certain dispute to arbitration because it feared that its claim would not receive jural treatment in this way.

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But, if so, in what can the jural existence consist, if not in a spiritual miniature of the whole fact’s constitution actuating every partial factor as its purpose?

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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.

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Related Words

• authorized
• constitutional
• justifiable
• legal
• permissible
• proper
• rightful
• statutory
• valid