a. [f. as prec. + -AL.] = prec.
1854. Fraser’s Mag., XLIX. 483. The juristical training of his mind and the legal discipline of his intellect.
1871. Markby, Elem. Law (1874), § 123. There is a fictitious person, or, as I prefer to call it, a juristical person … to which all the rights are supposed to belong.
Hence Juristically adv., in relation to law, from a legal point of view.
1878. F. Harrison, Eng. Sch. Jurispr., I. in Fortn. Rev., Oct., 489. Politically and socially speaking, law rests on something more than force. Juristically speaking, it rests on force, and force alone.
1881. Blackw. Mag., April, 540/1. Possession is morally as well as juristically nine points of the law.
