jure humano

[ yoo-re oo-mah-noh; English joor-ee hyoo-mey-noh, -mah- ]

adverb

, Latin.

1. by human law.

Example Sentences

The controverted points were to be decided at a free council, but the primacy of the pope and the hierarchical system, as founded jure humano, were to be retained.

From Project Gutenberg

Afterward the presbytery conferred, jure humano, this power upon them, who were specially called bishops, whence the tyrannical usurpation of bishops hath in process followed, claiming the proper right and ordinary position of that which at first they had only by free concession; and thus that great divine, Franciscus Junius,1027 deriveth the power of ordination.

From Project Gutenberg

This honour did the presbyters yield to him who was specially and peculiarly called bishop, jure humano; yet the act of ordination they still reserved in their own power.

From Project Gutenberg