juridical
adjective
ju·rid·i·cal
ju̇-ˈri-di-kəl 
variants
or less commonly juridic
1
: of or relating to the administration of justice or the office of a judge
2
: of or relating to law or jurisprudence : legal
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These groups worry that the law might lead to broad censorship of the Internet and create a precedent for more authoritarian regimes to further restrict free speech on the Web.
Responses to the law have also highlighted the new problems of juridical accountability that global tech companies pose.
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Heidi Tworek, Foreign Affairs, 16 May 2017
With varying degrees of complexity, the legal, juridical, educative, and propagandistic structures that had been developed in Syria and Iraq were transplanted abroad.
—Charlie Winter, Foreign Affairs, 31 Jan. 2017
Seeing that shake of Lynn’s head, I was brought deep into the clutches of a confounding temptation: to regard juridical proceedings as coherent and just.
—Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 3 May 2023
An individual is a juridical person, but a corporation, an LLC, a limited partnership, and a general partnership (in some states) are all also juridical persons.
—Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2022
On Monday, Representatives Jamaal Bowman and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez expressed support for the resignation of Senator Dianne Feinstein, as the congressional veteran’s absence leaves key votes including on juridical nominations in limbo.
—Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 18 Apr. 2023
Departmentalization was a juridical fiction.
—Alice Kaplan, The New York Review of Books, 21 Oct. 2021
The implication that Brazil is living under a kind of juridical dictatorship today is dangerous.
—Andre Pagliarini, The New Republic, 18 Jan. 2023
And as Frankfurter discovered in his old age, such coalitions have no intrinsic investment in juridical positions on the proper role of the court.
—John Fabian Witt, The New Republic, 26 Aug. 2022
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Heidi Tworek, Foreign Affairs, 16 May 2017
With varying degrees of complexity, the legal, juridical, educative, and propagandistic structures that had been developed in Syria and Iraq were transplanted abroad.
—Charlie Winter, Foreign Affairs, 31 Jan. 2017
Seeing that shake of Lynn’s head, I was brought deep into the clutches of a confounding temptation: to regard juridical proceedings as coherent and just.
—Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 3 May 2023
An individual is a juridical person, but a corporation, an LLC, a limited partnership, and a general partnership (in some states) are all also juridical persons.
—Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2022
On Monday, Representatives Jamaal Bowman and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez expressed support for the resignation of Senator Dianne Feinstein, as the congressional veteran’s absence leaves key votes including on juridical nominations in limbo.
—Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 18 Apr. 2023
Departmentalization was a juridical fiction.
—Alice Kaplan, The New York Review of Books, 21 Oct. 2021
The implication that Brazil is living under a kind of juridical dictatorship today is dangerous.
—Andre Pagliarini, The New Republic, 18 Jan. 2023
And as Frankfurter discovered in his old age, such coalitions have no intrinsic investment in juridical positions on the proper role of the court.
—John Fabian Witt, The New Republic, 26 Aug. 2022
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juridical
adjective
ju·rid·i·cal
ju̇-ˈri-di-kəl
1
: of or relating to the administration of justice or the office of a judge
raises a juridical question regarding trial
2
: of or relating to law or jurisprudence : legal
juridical opinions
Etymology
Latin juridicus, from jur-, jus law + dicere to say
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