a. [f. L. jūr-, stem of jūs law, right + -AL.]
1. Of or relating to law or its administration; legal; juristic.
1635. Heywood, Lond. Sinus Salutis, Wks. 1874, IV. 289. Iuno … to your Iurall seat, Brings State and Power.
1676. R. Dixon, Nat. Two Test., To Rdr. I prefer the Jural sense … and make use of Jural Terms borrowed from Laws Ecclesiastical and Civil.
1783. E. Stiles, United States elevated, 24. The jural systems of Europe where reigns a mixture of Roman, Gothic … and other local or municipal law.
1861. Maine, Anc. Law, i. 2. Many jural phenomena lie behind these codes.
1880. Muirhead, Gaius, IV. § 134. The question is as to facts, which ought to be stated according to their natural rather than their jural meaning.
2. Moral Philos. Of or pertaining to rights and obligations.
1845. Whewell, Elem. Mor., I. I. iv. 46 (Webster, 1864). By the adjective jural, we shall denote that which has reference to the Doctrine of Rights and Obligations. Ibid. III. xviii. 298. That balanced jural Condition of Society, in which Rights are necessary.
1865. J. Grote, Treat. Moral Ideas, vii. (1876), 96, marg. Distinction between jural and non-jural views of morality.
Hence Jurally adv., with reference to law, or to rights and obligations.
1874. H. Sidgwick, Meth. Ethics, III. vi. 274. Sometimes there occurs a clear rupture of order in a society … and then a new order, springing out of and jurally rooted in disorder.
