Definition of "de jure" [de• ju•re]

• According to law; by right. (adverb)

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• "Mamachi, Del diritto libero della chiesa di acquistare e possedere boni temporali (Venice, 1766); Meurer, Der Begriff und Eigentümer der heiligen Sachen (Düsseldorf, 1885); Bondroit, De capacitate possidendi ecclesia (Louvain, 1900); Scheys, de jure ecclesiæ acquirendi (Louvain, 1892); Knecht, System des justinianischen"
• "In any case, if a superior jurisdiction over these twenty-eight provinces did not belong de jure to the Bishops of"
• "Bismarck, however, took the ground that a marriage between the heir presumptive and the eldest daughter of the de jure Duke of Schleswig-Holstein would go a long way to reconcile the inhabitants of the above-named duchies to their annexation by Prussia, while at the same time it would constitute the reparation of an act which he himself admitted was extremely unjust, but to which he was compelled by imperative considerations of policy."