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juridico-legal

juridico-legal adjective: pertaining to the methods and infrastructure for enforcing the law.

Adjective

juridico-legal (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to the methods and infrastructure for enforcing the law.
    • Mechanisms of security do not replace disciplinary mechanisms, which would have replaced juridico-legal mechanisms.2007, M. Foucault, Arnold I. Davidson, Security, Territory, Population, →ISBN
    • The call for justice entails, beyond the trial of isolated individuals, an interrogation of the Mexican juridico-legal structures: the objective of the mobilization is to question the model of the nation, hence to dismantle state institutions that monopolize violence while claiming to be democratic.2009, Bhaskar Sarkar, Janet Walker, Documentary Testimonies: Global Archives of Suffering, →ISBN

Origin of juridico-legal

From juridico- + legal.

Questions about juridico-legal

What does juridico-legal mean?
Juridico-legal means pertaining to the methods and infrastructure for enforcing the law.
What part of speech is juridico-legal?
Juridico-legal is an adjective.

Words near juridico-legal in the dictionary

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

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