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ex juris

ex juris adverb: outside of the jurisdiction of the court.

Adverb

ex juris (not comparable)

  1. Outside of the jurisdiction of the court.
    • Write about radiation levels in seafood, “safe” pollution limits set by pollutors, government policy auctioned for campaign donations and Seaboard's ex juris police force, and you'll raise the temperature of public awareness, fractionally, towards its ignition point.2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Sceptre (Hodder and Stoughton), →ISBN

Origin of ex juris

Latin

Questions about ex juris

What does ex juris mean?
Ex juris means outside of the jurisdiction of the court.
What part of speech is ex juris?
Ex juris is an adverb.

Words near ex juris in the dictionary

  1. ex delicto
  2. ex dividend
  3. ex facie
  4. ex gratia
  5. ex hypothesi
  6. ex juris
  7. ex libris
  8. ex negativo
  9. ex nihilo
  10. ex nihilo nihil fit
  11. ex nunc

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