a. Also 6 iurysdycall. [f. as prec. + -AL. With the early form jurisdical (like jurisdiction), cf. OF. jurisdiciable (Godef.).]
1. Of, relating to, or connected with the administration of law or judicial proceedings; sometimes in more general sense = legal.
Juridical styles (Sc.), set forms of legal documents, = the ‘common forms’ of English lawyers.
1502. Ord. Crysten Men (W. de W., 1506), IV. xxi. 250. Without lycence of the pope & concessyon Iurysdycall.
1584. Burleigh, Lett. to Whitgift, in Fuller, Ch. Hist., IX. v. § 9 (1655), 155. This Juridicall and Canonicall siftner of poor Ministers, is not to edifie and reform.
1611. in Gutch, Coll. Cur., I. 101. Ceremonial and juridical assemblies of magistracy.
1759. Johnson, Idler, No. 54, ¶ 1. I … present you with the case … in as juridical a manner as I am capable.
1839. G. P. R. James, Louis XIV., II. 51. That trial … as far as Juridical decision went, was a mere farce.
1884. Sir C. Bowen, in Law Times Rep., LI. 531/2. The various uses that have been made by judges or juridical writers of the terms.
2. Assumed by law to exist; juristic.
1900. Daily News, 20 April, 7/5. A Bill … extending to juridical persons, that is, duly registered corporations or partnerships, the right to engage in mining.
