juridical
2
8.7
- adjective
- /dʒʊˈrɪdɪkəl/
- Formal
- The question of interest to me is what juridical accommodation the Pope will make in the interim.
- juridical statehood
- juridical norm
- juridical status
Examples
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Recourse to precolonial laws has continued to dominate the juridical debate over land in postcolonial Kenya.
Academic text (1995) -
Let us accept these ways of speaking and the juridical formalism of the process.
Academic text (1994) -
The commission reported on three major concerns: juridical equality, education, and employment.
Academic text (1994) -
In the beginning, the school was under juridical influence and the professors came from its School of Law.
Academic text (1994) -
One night he asked whether he thought that, from a strictly juridical point of view, his punishment had been just.
Fiction book (2001) -
Yes, it's an SJD degree, doctor of juridical science and is the highest degree in law.
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The government is asserting its clear juridical title to the companies.
Academic text (1990) -
Yet he wants to determine the precise juridical status of the penitent.
Academic text (1993) -
Mercantile society, according to this view, is represented as a contractual association of isolated juridical subjects.
Academic text (1998) -
The juridical framework ensures that all citizens are treated equally under the law.
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
1
8.9
About making a formal decision in a court case
1
9.9
Relating to a formal decision or hearing about a legal dispute
Relating to law, courts, and legal rules
About law and people's rights and duties
Relating to law and the legal rights and duties of people
How Legal
Surface Forms
Morphology
juridical = juridic (semi-transparent) = jurid + ic + al
The formation juridic + -al is regular, but the base 'juridic' (and the combining form 'jurid-') is relatively uncommon, so learners who do not already know the legal root may not deduce the meaning easily.
Etymology
Juridical comes from the root jur- and juris, which means 'law', the same root you see in jury and justice. So juridical means things 'related to the law' or to legal decisions.