jural
- adjective
- /ˈdʒʊrəl/
- Formal
:
jurídico
- Judges often interpret laws based on jural principles that govern rights and obligations.
- jural authority
- jural domain
- politico-jural
Examples
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As a result, the children were members of their father's lineage, but the mother retained jural authority over them.
Academic text (1998) -
While these childbirth payments carried no jural weight, they were still considered an important element in child custody disputes through the 1960s.
Academic text (1992) -
Consequently, jural authority over wife and children was vested in the husband.
Academic text (1998) -
The residential system was not included in the politico-jural domain.
Academic text (1998) -
The role of female husband expressed a Dahomean woman's jural and economic position.
Academic text (1998) -
The most pervasive principle is patrilineality, whereby a person born into a sublineage unit gains jural status in the wider political system.
Academic text (1990) -
Female descendants of the wives of the compound head were then in a peculiar jural position (Bohannan 1949:282).
Academic text (1998) -
The exercise of fiduciary powers accordingly implicates the fiduciary in the formation and alteration of jural relationships on behalf of those he represents.
Academic text (2018) -
Bohannan (1949) critiqued Herskovits's (1937) analysis and called attention to the significance of the transfer of jural authority via marriage.
Academic text (1998) -
In these predominantly patrilineal societies, fathers are jural seniors and prevail as formal decision-makers in households; first wives have authority over junior wives, title-takers over those without membership in secret societies, and older siblings over younger ones.
Academic text (2001)
Synonyms
∞
2.5
Relating to the law, lawyers, or what the law allows
193
6.1
Relating to courts and judges who deal with the law
2
8.7
About the law, court cases, or how courts make decisions
About law and people's rights and duties
Relating to law, courts, and legal rules
Surface Forms
Morphology
jural = juridical (opaque) = jur + al
The combining form 'jur-' is not a standalone English word and the adjective is technical, so an average B1 learner would not reliably infer 'relating to law' from the components.
Etymology
Jural comes from the Latin root jus, meaning 'law' or 'right', the same root you find in justice and jury. So jural describes something that belongs to the law or to legal rights.