Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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jural

adj. 1. Of or relating to law or jurisprudence; legal <jural and equitable rules>. 2. Of or relating to rights and obligations <jural relations>.

jural act

An act taken in the context of or in furtherance of a society's legal system. - Also termed jural activity. "In order to identify an act as a jural act, it must be the kind of act that would be engaged in by someone who is enforcing a law, determining an infraction of the law, making or changing a law, or settling a dispute." Martin P. Golding, Philosophy of Law 23 (1975).

jural activity

See jural act under ACT (2)

jural agent

An official - someone who has the appropriate authoritative status in society to enforce or affect the society's legal system -who engages in a jural act. 0 Common examples include judges, legislators, and police officers acting in their official capacities. See jural act under ACT (2).

jural cause

See proximate cause under CAUSE

jural cause.

See proximate cause.