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juridicide

juridicide noun: the killing or destruction of law, of the rule of law or of administration of justice.

Noun

juridicide (uncountable)

  1. (uncommon) The killing or destruction of law, of the rule of law or of administration of justice.
    • […] enabling a type of juridicide that exempts those responsible for the torture perpetrated in the CIA's secret prisons from open and transparent processes of juridical accountability.2015 October 14, Cristyn Davies, Sara L. Knox, Cultural Studies of Law, Routledge, →ISBN, page 86
    • [This effort to kill off rival narratives of (in)justice, what Robert Cover once called juridicide, involved prosecutors, police, elected politicians at all levels, and the mass media in both the United States and the Philippines.]2020 April 21, Michael W. McCann, George I. Lovell, Union by Law: Filipino American Labor Activists, Rights Radicalism, and Racial Capitalism, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 304

Origin of juridicide

From jurid(ic) + -icide.

Questions about juridicide

What does juridicide mean?
Juridicide means the killing or destruction of law, of the rule of law or of administration of justice.
What part of speech is juridicide?
Juridicide is a noun.

Words near juridicide in the dictionary

  1. juridical acts
  2. juridical person
  3. juridical persons
  4. juridically
  5. juridicial
  6. juridicide
  7. juridico-
  8. juridico-legal
  9. juridico-moral
  10. juridico-political
  11. juridicolegal

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